Re: [METANEWS] Do Robots have Souls, Anne Foerst

From: John Marlow (johnmarlow@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 02:43:17 MST


Additional thoughts:

What about, say, lepers--who lose sensation?
And who says robots will have no sensations?
And just what IS a sensation, anyway..? Robots may already qualify.

jm

On 7 Feb 2001, at 1:08, John Marlow wrote:

> **See below.
>
> On 7 Feb 2001, at 9:17, scerir wrote:
>
> > Spudboy100 writes, about "Robots have Souls":
> > > Forwarded from another list. The description makes me think of the Roman
> > > Catholic(?) robot babe (played by Wynonna Ryder) in Alien4 Ressurection.
>
> **Annalee Call. now THAT's my kinda android.
>
> >
> > St. Augustine said: "There cannot yet be said to be
> > a live soul in a body that lacks sensation".
>
> **Operative word: "YET..."
>
> Exceedingly curious that he would use that qualifier, wouldn't you
> say?
>
>
>
> John Marlow
>

John Marlow



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