"On topic of robots, everyone here agrees that if robotics were advanced to do tasks for us all on its own, they would be considered lifeless of course.
Yes, but what constitutes the meaning of morality between man and machine?
If a machine could do a task, why not make one? We've been taught right from wrong, all life would be precious, not?
Yes, but they don't think, they act. They're lifeless scrap metal, a different class per sé?
Now let me stop you there, let ask you this. A machine advanced enough to do tasks on it's own, could not realize it's its own being...?
Then realize control is a thought and then...
What?
...
...
Who knows."
March 17th 1978. Transcript for Debate with Scientist
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