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Sorry to bring up an old thread but this gives me a rather interesting notion. Human is just a word that applied to psyche, morality, flesh, etc. Why not work this from the other direction?
OK, we can replace everything in you, including the brain. A big petabyte hard drive and processors exists to make a physical dump of your brain allowing you to still exist, make memories, make judgments, learn, even have questions of morality.
Now we take that initially inanimate robot and teach it, have it learn, make it "grow up." It was sufficient for a human to implanted into a robot. Now the robot is thinking of its own volition. Is it human? Does it have a consciousness?
Now we step back and take away the complexity.
This is a far more interesting idea. AI and consciousness. Because what happens if an AI is conscious. Would we be really allowed to deem it artificial? What place would it have in the grand scheme of things? If our consciousness is something special, what about its?
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