"BradGuth" <bradguth@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Feb 9, 3:49 am, "Skybuck Flying" <IntoTheFut...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Where do you draw the line then ?

Do you consider a human being with a mechanical heart to be alive ?

What if his whole body is mechanical except his brain ?

What if parts of his brain are mechanical ?

What if his whole brain is mechanical ?

I think you are on a slippery road...

In fact the thruth might be that we are all just organic robots.

I also wonder if our "conciousness" / "humanness" is learned from 
generation
to generation and not necessarily inside the human brain/dna. Evidence of
this is in children who grew up between animals... they remained behaving
like animals for the rest of their lives... (They lacked other "concious"
human beings around them to "program" them with "conciousness" ;) :))

Bye,
Skybuck.

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Intelligent engineered Borg like androids could be the cosmic norm,
and the biodiversity that we consider as necessary and intelligent
worthy could be just like an ant farm to those cosmic androids that
are by default always smarter than us and essentially immortal.
-->

Borg are also notable in that their "technology" is "lifelike"...

humans + nanoprobes = more borg...
(granted, it is a slight bit more like a host/parasite relationship than 
typical life though).

so, even as such, they are still notably different than current machinery...

as-is, creating borg-like entities would require notable levels of 
involvement and difficulty (engineers, manufacturing, ...), so it would be a 
bit more like in Robocop than like in Star-Trek.


hmm, idle thought of Borg assimilating Zerg or vice-versa...