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A comment on Ask HN: Can ever a Toaster be considered having a life?.

Re:Ask HN: Can ever a Toaster be considered having a life? by FranciscusG on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:09AM (#23299921)
It depends on your definition of "Life".

One can modify one's definition of Life so that a sufficiently sophisticated toaster is alive, or one can try to build a sufficiently sophisticated toaster, until our currently accepted definition of Life applies to it.

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Re:Ask HN: Can ever a Toaster be considered having a life? by wisewolfcorps on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:35AM (#23300039)
Yes, it does depend highly on the context. There were no talks of artificial intelligence some decades ago but now that they are appearing it seems a highly possible way to keep Humans superior by modifying the context. Being a "living" or a "non-living" generates a different response in our daily life. This thought was based on the line that would ever "it" be considered different than what it is now!

Thanks for your thought.

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