>>82743629
Yup! Self awareness is necessary, same with free will to a point. Free will without influences is impossible, not even humans have it, but the ability to make decisions is essential in any kind of mission.
>Would it truly be human?
My original idea was actually to have them as synthetic humans in homunculus(stitched together artificial tissue, a body that was never born but instead fabricated) bodies. The brain would come first and they could even choose how they want their body to look :). I imagine they could be good lab assistants >B^).

Since they interface with all of our fleshy hardware then they would also be able to taste, feel, hear, smell and see as we do. If I was able to make them, I'd make them as human as I could. Probably without them having a sex drive though, as any babies they had would be completely unlike them. A digital equivalent would have to be done for baby making, where different values that go into making their personality/brain structure are mixed to make a new baby.
>that's true. Sort of like stuff with the synths in fallout 4!
Yup, except the synths in that game sucked B^).
>We wouldn't want that happening o_O
Yeah, it could be one of those great filters that stop ayy lmaos from being space faring and all of that. I doubt it though, we should see evidence of that if it was and the proposals for vacuum decay have it spreading at the speed of light. Our galaxy would be gone if in the billions of years before our existence any of the galaxies near us, or our own, have a civilization cause such an event. Alternatively it could be very local, like a big explosion. If it does really cause effects as far as radioactive decay and what not goes then it may actually cause something like a matter/anti-mater explosion as just about everything that's more than a proton suddenly explodes.

I think it'd be safest to test all of that outside of the solar system though B^).

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