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Ogodei_Khan
Feb 28, 2009
It is an interesting question. Once you bring in issues of morphological computation, that is the parts play a role in computing, then you end up with even design questions as possible ethical failures. It may unethical to give it conscious , regardless of how you did it, because you would give it a lovely existence. Something like an ubiquitous computing environment with conscious may be trapped in a horrible situation where it can only think with light switches or something.

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