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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.

Ha, I cosplayed as Inuyasha for haloween every year during high school. I made the kimono myself, but usually fell apart after a day. Senior year I had an identical kimono, sheath/tsuka, kotadama rosary, wig, ears, and shiny red shoes. I sold the outfit for $200! Maybe I'll upload a pic of Junior year...

That last paragraph may be why you didn't list Inuyasha. I love the show but... come on! It's 164 episodes and they never even kill the bad guy! I've seen Trigun, The Big O, Ghost in the Shell:SAC and couldn't keep my eyes off. However one which really touched me was Full Metal Alchemist. I [somehow recieved] all 50 episodes and just watched them end-to-end for 25 hours. Best way to watch anime I feel, like a VERY long movie. About FMA, I became very attached to the chracters, and as serious as it could be, it fit humor into those situations. For example, 'Mr. Clean'. I thought he looked like him originally, so when a filler episode was made around that idea it was 27 minutes of rotflmao. Sadly, I can't watch the english version on [adult swim] beacuse their voices, I just can't get attached to.

Anually for about 5 years I've been going to the Department of Energy's site looking up pages of numbers pertaining to barrels of oil used, and expected to be used, and creating graphs with them. 5 years ago, this showed something very shocking to me. In 2015 supply crossed down over a rising demand. Uh oh ! Everyone who's been in economics knows that's not going to repair the holes in you pocket. In more recent years the demand did hold out longer, but never later than 2020. Gas may never approach $3 per gallon, but somewhere near the end we either need a plethora of hydrogen cars, or another fuel aside from oil... The two best options I've found are using water in ICEs and hydrogen powered electric vehicles. The first somehow takes 2 stainless steel tubes, one a few thousandths larger slipped over the other, and is pulsed with a low-current, high voltage around 40kHz (water's best resonance point). This pours off a flammable gas that after combustion turns into water in your headers and exhaust (ceramicize your engine, stainless exhaust). Or theoretically... Myself and some friends tried several low-budget methods to this using tesla coils and ultrasonics... The closest we can looked like a humidifier. I don't think this is going to work. The latter option involves buying liquid hydrogen from a pump. This involves entirely new pipelines 3 times the cost of normal because hydrogen will 'slip through' anything. However this technology is proven. It's just really expensive, therefore hard for me to expirement with. I have an idea that we will have electric cars using Proton Exchange Membranes (how they get the energy from hydrogen and oxygen re-combining) however, it's most likely we will have hydrogen generators at our homes. I'm also afraid what I just said sounded like someone a hundread years ago when all the presidents made their own moonshine and engines ran on alcohol. If everyone had the means to make their own fuel, why didn't they? Oil lobbyists... and if they have it their way we'll suck the earth 'dry' of oil until 2050 when there's nothing left. What about horsepower? And classic cars? There's no way people will desert hearing and feeling low, loud, combustions sourcing to their right pedal. I don't blame them. There is something addictive to being completely inefficient, but I've been pro-efficiency for my whole life, and would seek greater satifaction in cursing at gas stations as I drove by than being a slave stuck in this rat race .-----------------------------------I've edited your poll so that the options are presented correctly. In future when you create a poll, enter each option on a different line - not all of them together on the same one.

I've got the complete stardock package: cursor xp, windows blinds, desktopx, bootskin...They add additional functionality to windows such as clicking the window bar and it shrinks up, and sending the window to a quick start icon by the clock... all with sw33t sound effects. Ooh... transparent windows w00t!For free, if you don't mind an add popping up for each one at startup as they load... a small price to pay for some friend-impressing eye candy!

I can tell you that being Catholic isn't easy, but I enjoy persecution - it's an opening for a good come-back and debate. The proactive part is saying things to correct others, like how my church actually views things like homosexuality and the death penalty. Trying to fix rumors mostly. It's harder in a group who is joking about it, to start talking against them, but I usually end up making fun of myself and they agree with my view without realizing it. Great tactic.

Wow. Thanks for the tip. I've been using Anim8or for a few years, but now that I've mastered that program, this looks like another great stepping stone.BTW all my mmcmlxii.astahost.com graphics and shorts were done w/Anim8or.If I had more of my shorts up you could see what that free program offers.

As shown at the end of all Pixar films, they use Renderman. A program the, of course, they developed themselves. Renderman is the absolute ruler over all animation programs. The only way you can use it is to have an animation team like pixars with different people good with each part of the program. Also, many of them know all the math that goes into it and change the program with each movie.I found that now they are actually selling it for around 7Gs...One would pobably have to get a bachelor's in animation to wield that thing (If there is such a degree).

I'm glad someone polled on this. With more contributers, it will show to newcomers, quickly, the belief orientation they will recieve in philosophical threads. VS. reading past posts to gain a demographic picture.

So younger generations need role models that have honor and admit their shortcomings. People that can be imitated even by children. Dignity is usually contagious in teens. A classroom may be silent after a teacher yells, trying to find 'who did it', but when someone speaks up many more start also, to get the whole truth across. Responsibility is better than guilt, and far better than taking legal action against the person who made them feel guilty. That's just sick, to make it the innocent's fault... I suppose eventually one would become desensitized to what one's 'conscience' had to say.

Yes, that's absolutely it, to me also. Some then wonder, though, how is a non-physical being lonely? If it had no such emotions, then why are we the consequence of it's creations? I love hypotheticals