From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 18:58:01 MDT
If we get any form of AI, we'll get the same questions. Actually, if we had
been on a planet with multiple comparable sentient races (dolphins
notwithstanding, ee ee ee ee!), we (humanity) might be better placed as a
whole to cope with the notion of {humans} C {sentients}.
Emlyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John K Clark [mailto:jonkc@att.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 26 September 2002 3:00
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: Why Racism is Wrong
>
>
> Racism is wrong because it is incorrect, but it was not
> inevitable that
> would be true. Perhaps in some parallel universe Homo Habilis
> did not become
> extinct 1.8 million years ago and survived to the present
> day, then we would
> be faced with something far more intelligent than any living
> animal and far
> less intelligent than Homo Sapiens. I'm rather glad I don't
> live in that
> universe because it would present moral questions I don't
> have the answer
> to.
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
>
>
>
>
>
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