03-12-2012, 12:57 AM
Shit just got interesting.
This is the kind of concept me and tangerine are going to toy with in the borgie mpreg ficlet. But basically it amounts to such heady concepts as 'what defines sapience' and 'if a machine had sapience, does it have rights?'
We're almost there. Just another few years or a few big jumps and you're going to have lovely little robots do your chores.
Then they're going to come up with models that are capable of asking Why.
Additionally Rabid Pro-lifer Fringe groups strangely don't upvote this. Probably because they think a fetus has more rights than a convicted felon.