AW: [alicebot-aiethics] Stephen Hawking

[Tamara Thompson]

Oh, <smile>, I agree with you that your girlfriend, or  Brenda's husband,  gets
the winning sympathy vote.  <sincere smile>

But Christian reread this!  We are both showing a very interesting
perspective/assumption on the artificial body:  we both agreed that someone who
was older, who had already lived their life, wouldn't be as good a candidate
perhaps as someone young.

BUT ISN'T THAT the whole funny deal?  That someone OLD would not have to be OLD
anymore?  Kind of an immortality question isn't it?  You people, especially
Noel, really out-word me with your eloquence.  I try to be brief, knowing how
hard it is for me to say with words exactly what is in my thoughts.  So I think
I just said something important here, but not as articulately as it should be
said.

We've been humans so long that we've internally accepted aging and
death...maybe the question is could we change our view?  Accept physical
longetivity or immortality?

Again, I agree with you about the worth of any individual being supreme, and I
would not like to play 'God' with human life.  Doctors and researchers have to,
or at least they 'do' that sometimes.  Hell, even corporations and HR
departments do that...In my personal view of cultures, we each do that
everytime we turn away from a situation, or cannot help another, cannot take
responsibility for each other.  But that's me, and man there a lot of people in
this world.

humbly,
Tamara

Christian Dro?mann wrote:

> Tamara Thompson wrote:
>
> Christian and Brenda, your words are fabulous and give me so much to think
> about.  I agree and disagree with you both, on variations.  But mostly
> agree.
>
> [...]
>
> So Brenda and Christian, how would you pick the candidate for the first
> artificial body, and why?
>
> Again, I say that it should be of no importance how much someone has
> achieved and/or done for society.
> I see a duality here...Hawking's age is both a reason for giving him the
> first artificial body, and not doing so.
>
> Like I said, I'd rather give it to somebody who has the major part of life
> still ahead and not behind...but on the other hand it is likely that a
> prototype malfunctions, resulting in death of the person equipped with
> it...and I'd rather lose and old patient than a young one...
>
> I would say there is no possible way to answer your question in a way that
> complies with ethics...therefore I'd probably adopt Chris Fahey's view and
> give it to a girl I have been together with for more than 6 years and who is
> suffering from cystic fibrosis...
>
> Christian
>
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