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« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2007, 12:19:59 PM »
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Yes.  It'd be called a switch.  Self-aware, doesn't mean self-modifying.

Okay, hypothetical question here: if at some point in the future, a computer is ever proven to be self aware and concious in exactly the same way as a human being, with the same or greater degree of intelligence etc, would switching the thing off permenantly be morally the same as murder?
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« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2007, 12:31:09 PM »
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Okay, hypothetical question here: if at some point in the future, a computer is ever proven to be self aware and concious in exactly the same way as a human being, with the same or greater degree of intelligence etc, would switching the thing off permenantly be morally the same as murder?

  Morally, yes.  Morals never stopped us bombing innocent people out of self interest though, did they?
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« Reply #17 on: July 01, 2007, 12:32:16 PM »
Strictly speaking, yes, but I suspect that the laws would not recognize it as such for a long time.
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« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2007, 14:42:46 PM »
Quote from: Taf on July 01, 2007, 10:32:39 AM
I wonder if it runs Vista?  Roll Eyes

why make such a powerful system and waste half of the processing power Wink
if Vista would even be able to manage that much CPU's

it runs on Linux Wink
as does pretty much every powerful system
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« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2007, 07:22:18 AM »
Naah.  Something that powerful is on a proprietary OS.

Of course, it's from IBM, so it probably runs OS/2...
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« Reply #20 on: July 10, 2007, 15:23:16 PM »
didn't OS/2 stop development?

my guess would be Unix or Linux really
hell for something like that they might even have made a new OS
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« Reply #21 on: July 10, 2007, 15:27:50 PM »
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my guess would be Unix or Linux really

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« Reply #22 on: July 11, 2007, 18:59:57 PM »
what the hell are you talking about?
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