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This is a question I have thought about and asked of friends.
I don't have an answer other than to say that I know what it feels like to be human. Having originally been human (ie born from the genetic code of two other organic humans), I am human.
If you were to replace everything with machinery would I still be human? It would depend on the efficiency of the machinery. If it was able to keep my experience and "self" intact to a state that I wouldn't know the difference, I would argue that I am still human.
The question is would others react to me as such. Given the current levels of prejudice I would argue that other "natural humans" would discriminate.
I think the point at which that discrimination would end would be if I had an organic brain. I believe we humans are (will be) brain-centric. If you don't have soft tissue for a brain, you will not be considered human (though I suspect that computers could be just as efficient, at some point in time, to work as well as an organic brain).
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- Old Man Luedecke
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