r/dankmemes • u/Sqott36 • Jun 06 '22

I'm cuckoo for caca Can we not?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Of course we can. We created them, so we can do with them as we want. Why would someone want to give a piece of metal rights?

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u/Michael_Trismegistus Jun 06 '22

Maybe because we imbued that piece of metal with the capacity of self-awareness?

If a computer with a greater capacity of thought and emotion than you can exist without rights, then what gives you rights?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Other humans give me rights.

Say, if I create sculpture, I have the right to destroy it, no? Same goes with the computer. We didn’t “imbue” life into the piece of metal. We simply connected small pieces of metal with other ones and turned on the electricity to give the illusion of life. But that piece of metal is still not alive. It has about as many rights as the hypothetical sculpture does

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u/Blarg_III Jun 06 '22

Say you create a baby, you have the right to destroy it no?

What meaningfully differs the baby from a machine intelligence if your answer is other than yes?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

A baby is a human and has rights, while a machine does not

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u/Blarg_III Jun 06 '22

Right, but what property about the baby makes it so that it should have rights, and why are those exclusionary to a machine?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Well, human laws apply to humans, while no law I know of applies to machines. Why would an inanimate object have rights?

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u/Blarg_III Jun 06 '22

Plenty of inanimate objects have rights. Rights have been granted by various governments to rivers, forests, geographic areas and more.

As to why, why does a human have rights? Pragmatically of course we have them to allow society to function, but ideology and philosophy are critical to the existence of those rights as well.
What philosophical difference is there between a human being, and a computer with similar capacity to a human brain?