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Old 09-18-2008, 01:38 AM   #6
Urbane Guerrilla
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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker View Post
We don't even know yet what complexity is required for step one, "a robot that thinks", let alone step two, a robot that conceives of itself having self-determination, but doesn't.
Robot predestination.

There's the stuff of a comic SF novel in that. John Wesley is no doubt not spinning in his grave, but doubling up and seized with the hiccups.
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