All humans are are organic computers. What makes a non-organic one not alive? I wouldn't say computers or robots at present time are alive but some time in the future once they're able to do more things and have better AI, they will be. And I don't mean talk and interact with us as if we're humans. Having a simple microchip that sends signals back and forth to one another is communication even if no public sounds are heard.
A cloned being is technically alive. Machines as they are now can create things. If ever a robot is programmed to create another in a factory, how is that any different than by using DNA? One is just organic and the other is mechanical and they're each creating a new version of one's self, so does that not make one alive due to reproduction?
Robots are basically the way of the future once they get a bit more perfected. Information will be able to be stored just like is done with our brains, they can be mass-produced much easier than an organic birth, they can repair themselves as well. So basically it's immortality. Heh, they just better hope nobody is equipped with an electromagnet pulse bomb as that would be akin to a nuclear bomb for us.
The only scary question in regards to a robot being alive or not and them being a mechanical computer compared to us being an organic computer.. if we're both considered alive and as we're able to actually know the life story, creation of, and everything else about robots, and they're alive as we are, just a different style, what does that say about our history of creation? If we know a robot has no soul because we created them, but they're just like us, what if we have no soul? If we're just an organic version of being alive, what if someone else, other than God, created us as we created robots? Our creator just prefered the organic version while we prefered the mechanical version. Take everything we know about robots, their history and the like, and apply it to us to help better understand where we came from. Pretty creepy.
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