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« Reply #15 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 21:26:14 » |
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So if everything is "natural" why does it matter if they are built out of some sort of organic machinery, standard current style electronic cleverness, a weird sort of quantum computing soup, or a mixture of all three? Surely the abilities shown are more important in determining an entities claim to life, and not it's technical make up.
the argument is more down to the fact that it is man made i.e. would not have happened without us building it. But in these days of GM etc it is a murky argument. |
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« Reply #16 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 21:46:32 » |
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Any such development in living machines would probably go alongside a greater understanding of the way our own minds work anyway. I guess things will get less murky as traditionally separate branches of science merge into new areas of study.
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« Reply #17 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 21:54:26 » |
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« Reply #18 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 22:19:31 » |
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Ace. I watched all of the Flight of the Concords tv series thingy this weekend. I didn't like it to start off with but it grew on me.
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« Reply #19 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 22:31:58 » |
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nighty night thread announced.
I think I'm going to enjoy sleeping tonight. Too many sofas and floors have taken their toll.
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« Reply #20 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 22:33:32 » |
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i've stopped coughing for the last hour thank fuck. bloody man flu.
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« Reply #21 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 22:36:09 » |
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and family guy is on, which is the bestest.
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« Reply #22 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 22:47:17 » |
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I used to like family guy. Then I got bored of it and stopped watching it. I've started watching it again a bit recently and started liking it again.
Mental.
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« Reply #23 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 22:47:53 » |
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that's one crazy story.
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« Reply #24 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 22:48:38 » |
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Sentient robot doctors would cure man flu.
Those bastards.
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« Reply #25 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 22:49:24 » |
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it's either that or covonia
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« Reply #26 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 22:52:36 » |
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I tried some 2,000,000 Scoville hot sauce stuff this weekend. I only had a bit spread on a cocktail stick. That stuff could cure aids.
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« Reply #27 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 22:53:24 » |
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i've tried some mental stuff before, the type of thing that makes a whole 6 person chili hot with one drop.
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« Reply #28 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 23:02:53 » |
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Went down well with a few pints of Ghandi's flip flop. I did completely destroy one of the cider festival toilet cubicles. It was there own fault for mixing a chilli sauce and delicious apple based alcoholic beverages.
I love taking a massive dump when there's a queue. The word dump doesn't really fit though. This was more of a rancid liquid spray. I don't think my diet of cheese for the last 2 days helped much either.
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« Reply #29 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 23:03:49 » |
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That's a post I really would rather have not read.
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