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Originally Posted by EatingPie
I figure if I set the rules now, I can't be called a bigot in the future since -- obviously -- they'll be using my rules!
-Pie
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The problems with setting the rules means that both sides have to play with them.
What if the soul isn't so much a construction of flesh and bone, but something more than that? If the mind is no more than a receiver for the soul like a radio is a receiver for a message?
Then why would an android or machine not be capable of possessing or attaining a soul?
Because it strikes me that to deny machines a soul is to deny the existence of god and if you do that, than you kind of kill off your argument that a soul exists don't you?
Seems to me as though there is no reason whatsoever that prohibits a machine from having a soul... Metal flesh, human flesh.... Really just both machines aren't they?
Whatever argument or rules you have start to break down once you examine the issues of what a soul is and how it attaches or connects to an entity.
At which point, the mechanics and materials that make us up don't matter any longer.
Just a perspective based on the rules as given.
But then I like to see Androids as being simply another form of human and should not that which is created by human to be human still be human? For that matter, what does it truly mean to be human?
Regards
David