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Wait, why are we trying to make a fake human? At first I considered the possibility of using their limbs as prostetics... being so human-like and yet stronger. But why would we adapt our entire race to be cyborgs (I'd like some of that implanted ) when we could have the full robots doing all our jobs for us? Hold on, I have an idea for a new thread.

AI software can be programmed to have emotional responses, but it is not self aware, I guess because nobody has yet tried. Self awareness involves knowing an issue, how it effects you (knowing you own feelings) and understanding how your actions create issues for others. If an AI program were told that his best friend's girlfriend is pregnant it would most likely respond 'congrats'. Does it know what that means? It would need to have a database of words, and be able to think of it's own response, something to say to fully express its feelings, not IF I% = "pregnant" THEN PRINT "Congrats."Does the program realize how old his best friend is, and if it's morally right for a young person to have gotten a girl pregnant? Could it foreshadow all the costs of money and time a child will take?So one way to test if a robot truly were self aware would be to tell it 'my girlfriend is pregnant' and have it cycle through these thoughts to output 'Will we still hang out often?"

It's difficult for me to say that they don't feel anything, because then why do we feel? That would lead to their being some 'mind' to us that is scientifically untestable, and I don't like to debate topics lacking scientific study [unless purposefully asked about me religion]. I still have to conclude the reflexive propety, that only a physical brain can feel as we with brains feel. And when the day comes that synthesized brains are called robots then they would be considered human. They must be, or any doubters would be asked, "what is it missing?" and being scientists couldn't respond with, "a soul."To the subtext impared I just said: By trying to remain a scientist, and exluding my religious beliefs, I must say another brain created chemically in a lab does feel as we do. Another important question from that is, "If they are the same, and then likely to ask questions about right and wrong, what consequence is there post-mortem for crimes they commit here on earth? Would, after realizing this problem of their lives being pointless, all go and commit horrible crimes because they're damned no matter what?"Ahh..err... no. Just because a person doesn't believe in after-life consequences is not a statistical cause to be violent. And being something which is even more sure it's soul-less shouldn't make it worse. Hopefully they would see the chaos we live in and try to help others sort it out. Life being pointless isn't that scary, it just keeps you from overachieving in the wrong direction. In fact that's why most robots would fit in perfectly with America: "when you do everything right, people will wonder if you have done anything at all." - 'God', Futurama

How much more does it cost to train, store, and equip all these insects? Is it really economical? Which would be better, if you were carrying drugs, to be pummelled and bit by a dog, or attacked by a swarm of bees?I could also imagine a species of bees being created by rubbing the drugs on their legs and brining it back to a hive (honey bees). I don't doubt that if a certain pothead/beekeeper found out about this, he would supply his little slaves with enough crops to make it work.... HONEYPOT!! HAHA! That SO explains Winnie-the-pooh! Always hungry...house cluttered with honeypots...having pipe dreams about heffalumps and woosels transforming from them... Omg, that's just too perfect....honey-pot..*chuckles*

The answer to whether it qualifies to be alive isn't that matter itself. By determining whether its alive, then you will label it with rights. The question we are spiraling around is if robots could feel the same as we do, then shouldn't they be treated equally. If I wrote a basic program, and when you swear at it, it replies that you hurt it's feelings, then does that mean it actually felt it? If you argue that an exact replication of the human brain could be made in either simulation or reality, that it does feel the same as we do, than any line of code within it would bear the same feeling. If a simulated brain feels, then so do QBASIC programs.Now do you agree with that, or is it only when it's an 'exact' brain that it deserves rights. What, then, is a perfect replication of ourselves? I must conclude that only things from nature can be given rights. I cannot argue free-will, because that is a very fuzzy (pun-intentional) area.

I'd get an iPod if it were shock absorbive. If not, I'd drop it the first day and see 50 and 20 dollar bills flying out of it and burning up before I could catch them! I've had 3 mp3 players, each one progressively cheaper, because I always drop it on the first week, even on carpet, and it never works again . I can imagine the mini-hard drive disk shooting out at 10,000 rpm into a wall, and it would be very painful to watch, as my mouth drops to the floor froom the excitement of just blowing $400 in such a fashion, and the agony of just having blown $400 in such a fashion

Ineresting... I'd never thought of her as being dead, just as brain damaged... wait if she was, then what's the question? Why would you waste money on a dead person? That's like paying money for fertilizer on a wilted plant.

Well, it was her previous wishes to leave it out and her husband is just trying to respect those wishes. Nobody but him can know how she felt about this before it happened, therefore not her family, nor any judge, can say anything against it.Some of the things her family has said though, just...well, for example: when her parents visited her after hearing that she made three distinct moaning noises, they came out of the room claiming that she had said "I want to live". Now that's just like putting an A+ on a forged report card for your parents. yes... I like that analogy...

Woah, wait! Isn't the point of skin to provide a firewall to everything outside? How could it be better to open a large [what, like 1 inch] patch of your skin, which would allow God knows what into your system? That's like opening ports 1500 through 2000 just so you can download with 1750. If any other virus were between the injector and your skin, wouldn't it be blasted in also? It seems safest with a needle, so only the drug can pass in, and only in that one point.

Well it has a point with the conservatives... About pain though... I don't consider needles painful at all, in fact the feeling of something being inside my muscles is quite intriguing. (Except if it hit a nerve - youch!), who would have thought you could feel inside places like that? And then feel the cool liquid lurching throughout your bicep, squeezing into veins toward your chest... sorry just trying to smoke out the squeemish:)How would you like it if a thousand microscopic raindrops burst 5 mm into your skin and dissappeared? Seriously, I'm asking a question. I guess the chimps tested on would have said something...

Cool, it's a list of who had the best R&D budget!Wow, I forgot to see that movie... I only saw the re-make commercial once, i guess it was a limited showing.After being at thx's website I think I will love to see the remake. The site is completelely unconventional and I'm not sure I saw it all... awesome!

Er... lemme say that Anim8or is to MSpaint, as 3D studio max is to Paint Shop Pro 8.If you're just starting I'd say Anim8or. They have enough tutorials so that you'll learn all the program in a month or so. From those basics you could move to 3DSMax...you'll appreciate the extras it has alot more then.

Emo:#1 - Big Fish (I admit induced a tear)<-Fullmetal Alchemist*#2 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind#3 - Forest Gump#4 - Inuyasha Movie 4#5 - Garden StateThriller (edge-of-seat):#1 - Phonebooth#2 - Matrix (Has more emo and philosophical quality than edge-of-seat expirience)#3 - ConstantineComedy:#1 - Ferris Bueller#2 - Office Space#3 - Galaxy Quest *FMA would be placed here if the 51 esipodes could be counted as a movie, 'cause that's how I watched them in a day. They were that good to me.

Yes, more technology as-seen-on star trek . While thinking what might happen if it were used improperly as a weapon, it's probably no more dangerous than someone coming after me with with a typical needle, don't get me wrong, that's still plenty dangerous...Seriously, I see alot of posibilities if this were made large scale. Consider injecting insulation into home walls without cutting the drywall, or possibly a new way of repairing asphalt. Hmmm, trying to think of methods where the object being penetrated isn't solid.... I suppose you could just aim it at a brick wall, and blast right through it.. Ah! Drilling applications even...It initially got me thinking about that plastic skin-graphing though, where microfibers are sprayed on your skin and biodegrade after a week or two; great for burn victims. But I'm not sure how low a setting that might need.Anyhow, thanks for the great new tool I can brag to my colleages !

Yeah, biodiesel is the fuel that makes exhaust smell like french fries, which would be great most of the time, but if you were driving home sick, it probably wouldn't make things better... I think alcohol would smell better then, 'cuz I hear that it has a sweet smell out the exhaust.I think what is currently preventing more common use of fuel cells is just that not enough large compaines are demanding them yet. The more they are researched for use in cars, the better manufaturing methods will be devised, so they can be made faster and cheaper. Everything becoming portable, I expect soon to see people using bluetooth mp3 players and earphones, and the clothes collect solar energy to power the low-wattage devices. To regulate the power, however, a descrete light-weight energy resevoir must also be embedded in our ensamble.If this culture is developing it's technology toward descrete portability, and then self-sufficiency, it's likely, also, that cars should create the fuel themselves.