Freakzilla wrote:
> On Oct 17, 11:17 am, Bastard Toadflax
> <bastard_toadf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Freakzilla wrote:
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>>>On Oct 16, 7:24 pm, "Tony" <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>"Freakzilla" <jl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:
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>>>>>How do you know YOU are alive?
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>>>>>:P
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>>>>Stethoscope.
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>>>BUZZZZ!
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>>>The worm would have crushed you!
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>>>The correct answer is:
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>>>"Your question is sophomoric."
>>>~Reverend Mother Tertius Eileen Anteac
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>> The question made me think of the Honored Matre and her
commander with
>>the Frame Bush, he would never see again. Teg surmised they were no
>>longer really alive just before he made that fact a dead certainty....
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>>BT
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> I guess y'all figured out it was one of Leto II's Questions of Doom,
> answer right or die!
>
> Back to the original question...
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> I try not to dwell on Omnius but the question may as well be, what
> would qualify AI as being "alive"?
Simplistically? I've just assume the ability to act independently of
programming, or possibly to become more than the total of the parts...
BT
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