Posted: Dec 07, 2017 2:29 pm
Cito di Pense wrote:DavidMcC wrote:
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.
In that case you are arguing about an organism that is changed by its history. You can also think about a robot that is changed by its history. We're just exploring what distinction you are trying to make between an organism and some other sort of machine.
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Sure, you can conceive of a robot that is changed by its history, BUT that is by the way, because robots can in addition to that, in principle at least, be reset to factory settings, in a way that no human can. And please don't copy GrahamH's bending of that into going back a short while (because that is not returning to factory settings), and claiming that that comes to the same thing. It very much does NOT!
EDITED for spellling.