"Freakzilla" <jlkiv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
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> Back to the original question...
>
> I try not to dwell on Omnius but the question may as well be, what
> would qualify AI as being "alive"?
>
How about consciousness? Sure, many people would say it's possible to be
conscious without being alive, e.g., like a ghost, spirit or soul.
However,
such ghosts once lived, and then died. But is it possible to never have
died, but to be conscious, without being alive?


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