Ex Machina (D. Alex Garland)

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Originally Posted by spectre08

and what exactly makes a "living being" distinct from a computer?

is there some magic in our programing being a combination of chemical and electrical rather than purely electrical?

First we don't need to be plugged or run on batteries.
Second most of our "pieces" can't be made if we need to change them, we need to take them from someone else.

Originally Posted by spectre08

"life" is not particularly special, and is not remotely uniquely the domain of biological structures, we just simply haven't YET created technological systems as complex as higher biological ones.

There's no recipe to create something biological from scratch like we can do with any machine.

Originally Posted by spectre08

You don't have to get all religious or metaphysical to debate this. Even completely disregarding the idea of a "soul," most people still accept that higher forms of animal life are capable of feelings. If you wanna try to tell me that my dog doesn't have emotions I will laugh in your face.

Your dog does have emotions (they just aren't as complex as ours) and maybe even have a soul too.


BTW, why does everybody use spoiler tags, that movie's almost a year old.