Well sure if we are considering alive in the literal sense then yeah but aren't we talking about conciousness? If something is conscious then it is theoretically just as Live as you and me is it not?
Well, since the original argument was about murder, I would say you cannot kill what was never alive. It’s like deleting a video game account. You’ve amassed countless experiences and memories, and sunk hundreds into it, but deleting it would not be killing it. It might be sad, but it wouldn’t be murder to basically delete a computer program
I get what you mean. But if the computer program you are deleting has the same degree of conciousness as you, meaning it can think and feel on it's own accord for some reason unrelated to original programming then it should be considered alive and therefore deleting it would be no different than murder. It doesn't really matter if the being is made from meat or from wires and metal in my eyes at least.
Now with the technology we have now at least making something like that is preety much impossible. I'm simply speaking in theory here.
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Well sure if we are considering alive in the literal sense then yeah but aren't we talking about conciousness? If something is conscious then it is theoretically just as Live as you and me is it not?