| | Hi John,
Thanks for the link. It’s the same one Aaron provided and I just finished reading it. I believe I had skimmed some of the exchange when it happened, but I wasn’t truly following it. Aaron handed their butts to them. Contra Bill, the posited robot most certainly is alive. She wrote that it, “moves and acts,” inanimate entities don’t act, but she posited an entity that does act. Edit to add: Also, the very first word she uses when introducing him: immortal. Immortal means eternal life. It means never gonna die, implying still not dead, meaning alive.
I assent to everything you hope I might in your post. There would be no fear of death, and no pursuit of measures for its prevention. However, there would still be preferences as to how this eternity will play out.
I am not criticizing her meta-ethical foundation in the fact of life and its requirements, but the value of the robot analogy in clarifying that idea.
(Edited by Jon Letendre
on 7/10, 2:56pm)
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