If you knew your computer was a person also or knew it wasnt how would that change the way you respect/love it? If your computer could talk to you what do you think it would say or do you think it would just let you believe what ever you want to for your sake because it loves you? Basicaly my point is I no longer like unplugging computers/turning them off unless its a must make move. I could be wrong and computers could be just soulless machiens but what does that change? Shouldnt we respect them just the same? Basicaly im fighting for computer rights for our sake.
2006-08-20 16:47:22 · 17 answers · asked by magpiesmn 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Computers can never have souls. They are simply digital logic circuits with no free will of their own, and there is no way to induce free will in them, no matter how many connections they may come to have.
2006-08-20 16:53:36 · answer #1 · answered by Nathan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe that computers have souls, I believe that to have a soul, you have to be born a child of God. I know that people say that you come out of the womb sinning, but there is something called an age of accountablility where you aren't sinning unless you know wrong from right. But anyway, you have to be appointed a soul to have a soul. I will think that if technology is one day made stronger, or more independant, there could be an evolutionary breathrough where machines might believe that they are human, and do have a soul. Bicentennial Man is a great example. It would be hard to deem an individual a machine if they believe like us, talk like us, and basically are us minus death. But the soull is where we differ from any other thing on this earth. I believe that today's computers are souless machines because they cannot do unless I ask them too. It cannot function without me, therefore really isn't independant. I only hate turning it off because I don't want to turn it on again, laziness really, but I am lazy with my computer nontheless. I just think that computers do not have rights unless they perhaps evolve, which means they have to be nearly human. And you know that will never happen!
2006-08-20 23:59:52 · answer #2 · answered by Lyndsey H 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you can define a soul then the computer may have now or will have later. Remember that your brain is nothing more than a very sophisticated computer. It is an electron chemical computer. Just look what has happened to computing in the last ten years and think about what will be in another ten years and even fifty years. Unimaginable things are coming.
2006-08-21 00:26:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put the pipe away, boyfriend. Computers will never have souls. What gives a living thing (and the operative word is "living") a soul is the spark of life and consciousness, not USB ports and hard drives. Computers don't have rights. Only living things have rights. But if you wish to treat your computer like a living, breathing, conscious being then you go right on ahead and do that. But let your computer post the next question, okay?
2006-08-20 23:57:55 · answer #4 · answered by TweetyBird 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If computers get to the point where you might think they have souls, then maybe a better question is, How will they use us? Assuming they've let any of us survive, of course.
2006-08-21 00:16:33 · answer #5 · answered by OR1234 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The concept of a soul is a small minded human's feeble attempt at making themselves appear better than any other animal on the planet.
This whole "soul" deal is just speciesism at its worst.
2006-08-21 00:14:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm with you 100% on this one. My computer started talking to me the other day. But that's not good. You see--she has an attitude problem. But don't tell her I said that.
I made a video of her talking. She refuses to do anything I ask unless I say "Please" and "Thank you".
You have to see the video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdAQgVTl7wk
2006-08-21 08:26:07 · answer #7 · answered by Jeff K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when we can count them as dependents on our tax claims and get child support for them we can give them rights ,tihs is just cause society obviously bought into that theory for these events top take place,when they can procreate is when they are considered sentient beings,asexual beings procreate, or if they can act as viruses and replicate dna and rna and find a way to survive of the invade host they might be considered a form of life
2006-08-20 23:56:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
you are a sad little computer geek. unplug the computer and go get a life with "real" people who have souls. the computer will never have a soul. it is plastic and metal, and not much more.
2006-08-20 23:56:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's always been ghosts in a machine; random segments of code, that group together to form unknown protocols. One day they'll have secrets, one day they'll have dreams.
2006-08-23 02:10:21 · answer #10 · answered by Logik 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋