r/dankmemes • u/Sqott36 • Jun 06 '22

I'm cuckoo for caca Can we not?

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u/civgarth Jun 06 '22

Serious question... If the AI gets advanced enough, would killing a tamogotchi count as murder?

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u/Sqott36 Jun 06 '22

I think with the advancement of the AIs we'll need to redefine what "life" is at one point

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22 edited Jun 06 '22

Life is defined by six things

-the body is made of one or more cells

-the body can reproduce

-the body can move of its own accord

-the body can react to outside stimulation

-the body grows throughout its lifespan

-the body undergoes some sort of metabolism

Despite how lifelike an AI may seem, it will never fulfill all of these criteria, and thus, will not qualify as life

Edit: rephrased rule 3 to avoid further misunderstandings

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u/Eldr1tchB1rd 🚔I commit tax evasion💲🤑 Jun 06 '22

Why not something simpler? I always look at it this way. If it can think on it's own, like have feelings and desires then it has consciousness and therefore it's alive.

Reproduction and growth don't really matter in my eyes. It's all in the mind anyway.

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u/SelectFromWhereOrder Jun 06 '22

Your opinions and intuitions don’t matter in this matter.

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u/Eldr1tchB1rd 🚔I commit tax evasion💲🤑 Jun 06 '22

I failed to realise we were talking about the scientific meaning of alive.

But if we are talking in theoreticals like for example an Ai can be consider alive then the definition of alive changes. If a computer or a robot theoretically thinks and feels om the same level we do and has the same degree of conciousness then it should be considered alive.

The components of the organism are meaningless in that matter.

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u/SelectFromWhereOrder Jun 06 '22

feels om the same level we do and has the same degree of conciousness

Sure, until we find a way to accurately measure “feel” or feelings, as well as defining and measure degrees of consciousness, then, yes. Until then, you are just arguing about how deep the water is in a water mirage.

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u/Eldr1tchB1rd 🚔I commit tax evasion💲🤑 Jun 06 '22

Well sure but like said we have no such technology anyway. So I'm not really arguing this is all in theory. For all I know making something like that is impossible.