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Re: Building robots is a SIN ! ! !

#256
From: Andy Baker
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:17
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Dude, I shit you not. Check this out.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041018/brain.html

or http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041022104658.htm

or http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/24/0024241

or http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1228132.htm

or http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65438,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

I may be a complete spaz drinking gallons of coffee a day, but I NEVER saw 
this coming.

Andy


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> "Andy Baker" <respond@the.news.gr.oup> wrote in message 
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>> Ohoooh and speaking of monkeys!!!! I'm SO glad that this thread went this 
>> direction!!!
>>
>> Now lets say, hypothetically, OK.. that you build this robot, right?  but 
>> it doesn't have a CPU in it. got that, so Instead, you use a monkey's 
>> brain in place of the CPU. get it? a MONKEY'S BRAIN!! Now since the robot 
>> isn't alive till you give it a means to control itself, be it a monkey 
>> brain or a computer, and you just happen to be using a spidermonkey 
>> brain, which god originally gave life to, would it be a sin then? Or 
>> would it depend on whether you took the brain from a dead or a live 
>> monkey? I bet if you took it from a live monkey, it wouldn't be a 
>> sin...or would it? If you took the brain out of the monkey, but let the 
>> brain live in a robot, would you really be killing the monkey? or just 
>> cutting off a part that.......it didn't need any more? kinda like 
>> fingernails.... but a little more extensive, because in that case you 
>> really wouldn't be killing the monkey, but I bet that if you took it from 
>> a dead monkey, it would be even more of a sin because then you'd be 
>> resurrecting a monkey, which is a feat only jesusmunkey can get away 
>> with. Unless........ you could find the monkey messiah (son of monkey 
>> god) then maybe you could get away with bringing his brain back to life 
>> in a robot and monkey god wouldn't smite you, because your monkey brain 
>> died, albeit temporarily for the sins of other monkeys... and if you've 
>> ever been to the zoo, boy howdie can those monkeys sin. Do you think 
>> they're born with those hairy palms?  It's amazing that they haven't all 
>> gone blind for god's sake!
>>
>> Debate THAT Karl-Hugo Weesberg!!!
>>
>
>
> Dude!  Less caffeine!!!!!!!
>
>
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