Posted: Dec 06, 2017 4:27 pm
Cito di Pense wrote:DavidMcC wrote:I meant that a big diffference between robots and humans was that robots can always, in principle, be reset to factory settings, whereas that is not an option for humans, who are not even made in a factory, and have to be born biologically, and develop from birth in their individual way.
In principle, as you say, a robot can also be made complex enough that its factory settings cannot be specified any more precisely than a human's can. That is, it will take too long to examine every component and set it before a stray cosmic ray undoes all your factory resetting, but in principle of course, they are the same. You're adding this 'develop from birth in their individual way' as if that were some kind of special sauce for human-ness.
Just as you would, I would like to see an argument that humans have a special condition, but I don't see it happening here through your good offices.
Cito, (a) that was not "as I said"", and (b), developing from birth isn't "special sauce"", it's merely biological fact. Can you not tell the difference. Also, what you call a "special condition" of humans is that they are born. Were you not born? I would have thought that not being born was a special condition for a human, although normal for a robot.