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Old 06-11-2010, 10:36 AM   #270
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.. Is Data, the Star-Trek android, alive?
So if we are able to duplicate the functioning of the human mind in a computer, would it be considered conscious? Would it be alive?

P.S. There is an ongoing discussion thread I started a few weeks back on another forum called "What is Consciousness"
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