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Old 05-02-2012, 09:05 AM   #16
mindstalk
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Default Re: Pro- and counter- Pan-Sapient Rights Memetic Campaigns

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Originally Posted by jeff_wilson View Post
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.
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.
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