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Re: Building robots is a SIN ! ! !

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From: jbeck
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:52
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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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