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#2
09-09-2008, 10:45 AM
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Here's an example:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2...npu=1&mbid=yhp 
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09-09-2008, 03:21 PM
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Probably not considered life forms because they don't have a soul or aren't conscious.
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09-09-2008, 05:17 PM
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Life... is life.
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09-09-2008, 07:43 PM
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09-12-2008, 04:30 AM
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and consciousness in artificial intelligence is a possibility in the future
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09-12-2008, 07:08 AM
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All parts of what we identify as "self" are subject to change. Every bit of what makes "me" what "I" am will have been replaced at least once between the moment of "my" birth and the time of "my" death. The experiences "I" experience are subject to change. The image that "my" ego creates of what "I" am transforms with each day. In all this change where is the soul? When one questions the fundamental nature of consciousness and when one questions what, in fact, constitutes a soul in a universe where the only true constant is change it is easy enough to accept that artaficial beings are still beings. As beings they are bound in samsara and experience suffering. Thus a buddha would seek to also liberate AIs from suffering. Now there is an interesting thought puzzle... That's one way to look at it. Another is as a variation of the old koan about dogs having a buddha nature. The answer to which is a non-dualistic yes/no that is, in principle an argument that separating "dog" from "me" within the context of buddha nature is rather unimportant as that buddha nature is a universal aspect of reality. As for reincarnation and karma: most of that was hindu ideas that snuck back into buddhism after the pirinirvana of gautama. The european tendency to indescriminately mix Buddhism and Hinduism during the 19th and 20th centuries and the tendency of western media to concentrate on Tibetan Buddhism (one of the most divergent branches of Buddhism) has led many to assume they are major fascets of the dharma. Pure land buddhists believe that if one recites the name of Amitofo (Amitabha / Amida Buddha) in faith at least once they will experience a heavenly after-life that fast-tracks to pirinirvana. Other buddhists (particularly Theravadans) tend to question the idea of reincarnation at all. And karma... Karma suggests a universe with some sort of unchanging natural law - something that Buddhism should actually reject since one of the core tenents of the dharma is the impermanence of everything.
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09-10-2008, 06:01 PM
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09-10-2008, 07:42 PM
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remember cherry 2000?
it was like number 5 but with boobies.
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09-10-2008, 08:31 PM
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Cherry 2000
 Sex robots are the future!
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09-11-2008, 09:43 AM
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who says thats a decline!
we can grow babies in a tube and then the wimminz wont talk back!
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