Robot Rights
Robot Rights
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It's really the inevitable result of materialistic philosophy. If everything can be boiled down to matter and if consciousness is simply an evolutionary tease granted to us by Natural Selection as some sort of survival advantage, then machines should be given the same rights. For we are no "better" than they.
Of course this is absurd. We will never be able to produce machines which possess consciousness because the mind cannot be reduced to molecules bumping into each other. There will always be the non-physical mind which encompasses the will and emotions.