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...to try to get this discussion back on a serious level again, please...
I've been thinking about this question for a long time way before you posted it. I think "Blade Runner" (this film based upon Philip K. Dick's novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep") is a very good example to get us thinking about this question.
I don't think it has to do with flesh or with a belief system (or even the absence of a belief system). I think it has something to do with what's inside someone or something. (I'm now thinking of Asimov's story, which I can't remember the name of at this moment, where the robot rushes out into the street to save a child after having been found guilty. Sorry, my memory is hazy; I may be remembering an adaptation from "Twilight Zone.")
Perhaps it's our ability to care about someone and to dream about a better world; an ability to see beyond one's self and to recognize that our world contains both our birth and our death.
Your question is serious and is deserving of serious thought. I think it's a very important question.
Don
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