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Re:Would it be evil to build a functional brain inside a com... by guscost on Saturday July 06, 2013 @01:39AM (#5998088)
Would you agree that today many people ascribe consciousness to dogs and other mammals? Keeping in mind that most mammals don't speak English, I'd assume that many people would befriend this hypothetical technology in the "dog phase" or earlier.

Also, as a group women and other races have been considered more different, then less different, without actually changing from one to the other. The same couldn't necessarily be said about AI projects.

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Re:Would it be evil to build a functional brain inside a com... by pbw on Saturday July 06, 2013 @01:56PM (#5999498)
Most people believe their dogs are less conscious than they are, but more conscious than gold fish, etc. I agree AI will achieve various levels of consciousness at various times, starting well below us and ending up well above us.
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