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Originally Posted by jeff_wilson
One difference is that meat doesn't have convenient features to make and rescind arbitrarily broad or narrow scope mental changes, while synthetic minds presumably do. LAI-Bob comes with sliders and skins and mods and Undo/Redo functionality. When Meat-Bob needs to be adjusted after drawing breath, he gets a "Clockwork Orange" set piece.
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But Zell wasn't talking about meat-bob after drawing breath, but about meat-bob's genome (and initial development, esp. for a bioroid). And while genomes are messy code at best, there are some sliders, like the oxytocin voles.