5HC : Chinese boxes or tea chests?

Nathan Spears · 02 Feb 2005, 06:47 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: spearofsolomon at yahoo.com (Nathan Spears)
Date: Wed Feb  2 06:47:21 2005
Subject: (urth) 5HC : Chinese boxes or tea chests?
In-Reply-To: <BAY102-F37033366E9C283E375E64A867E0 at phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <20050202144646.96438.qmail at web50302.mail.yahoo.com>

I'm not sure I get the "have to nuke the asteriod" bit.  If the computers ran off
solar energy than it would be a legimate problem, I suppose, although not for the
reasons they were aware of.  But don't you think that an entity which has
consciousness needs to be "self-aware" enough to make real decisions concerning its
own future?  Or were you saying that the computers destroyed the asteriod out of a
legitimate sense of self-preservation?

Chris, I would have gone with Platonic Plutonians: do the computers aspire to the
Form of Personhood?

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