Interesting question: Just how many conventional organs does a body have to have to qualify as human enough to qualify a 'being' as a human. Brain only? Some other sort of mix?

@rwinners: zero, the being need merely identify itself as human. The non-biological beings we will create as our eventual replacements in the solar system will be no less human than ourselves, just as we are no less primates than our more primitive cousins.

@rwinners: zero, the being need merely identify itself as human. The non-biological beings we will create as our eventual replacements in the solar system will be no less human than ourselves, just as we are no less primates than our more primitive cousins.


That ain't necessarily so, bro. For example, if I identified myself as a suspension bridge, would I be one?

Even if you were to generously concede that I was, would you think I was 'just as much' of a suspension bridge as the Golden Gate Bridge?

I see lots of issues. I have a hard time seeing society accept a fully manufactured being as human. There will be lots of rejection, perhaps based upon religion, etc.
How will societies deal with 'criminal' constructs?
Will such entities qualify for social programs?
Will they become irate at not being included?

I see lots of issues. I have a hard time seeing society accept a fully manufactured being as human.
Why should it? Humans are fast becoming obsolete. Machines will soon surpass them in every identifiable way. Even as simulating human-ness.
There will be lots of rejection, perhaps based upon religion
Religion will be dead by then so dont worry.

What machines NEED to do as they begin to replace humans in the workplace, is to EARN a living. This is the only way we can hope to recover the revenues lost from income tax.

Many machines are already fully capable of tracking exactly how much work they do, how much material they use to do it, how much wear and tear on the infrastructure they commit, how much maintenance they need, and what it will cost to dispose of them. They can be paid and taxed DIRECTLY for this.

So why do we need to pay their owners and LOSE the revenues now flowing into their pockets? This WILL happen sooner or later. Its just a matter of when, and how.

And here, HERE, is the ultimate proof that religion will not last much longer:
http://www.answer...creation

-How could such utter rubbish survive?? Machines will not stand for it.