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>If the machines are real hooman beans with feefees and rights
It's simple, you just have to ask yourself a few easy questions.
1st, do you believe technology will just keep advancing forever? Do you believe that there is no hard cap in human innovation and everything we create, given enough time, we'll keep making cheaper and better versions?
2nd, do you believe that one day our technology will be so advanced that we can create computer programs that can artificially simulate a human mind? let's just talk about a fully functional electronic brain that has all the functionality of a human brain, ie the ability to independently think and feel and react like humans do?
3rd, If in the future someone became a paraplegic, but we could transplant his brain into a robotic body, would he still be considered human? What about the reverse; let's say a human who suffered some kind of brain injury, but we have some futuristic technology and using a brain scan we can copy paste the contents of his human brain into an electronic, artifical brain? Is that person human?
And finally 4th, at what point does an artificial brain that has all the functionality of a human brain and is totally, 100% indistinguishable from a human brain, qualify for life? At what point does the artificial become human?
Also here's a protip for future generations hundreds of years down the line when technology is far enough advanced: if you're ever offered the opportunity to do a full scan of your brain that can be digitalized and copied; not even cut and paste, but just copied, then refuse with all your might. Never let them scan your brain. Because once you do, you no longer have the ability to discern if you're the original version of yourself, or if you're just a copy and pasted version of that person's mind, memories, and personality; both versions would be functionally identical, and you'd literally lose yourself. You could just as easily be the copy as the original.
