great read.
It's a tough one really... Some people would always believe that they are still just code. Still just something that could have no feeling beccause they are just machine/software and that is all.
But our body's are also a form of machine, a organic machine. And our brains are very sofisticated pieces of processing power, capable of calculating and processing infomation in massive quantaties, as well as able to store infomation (memory), just like a hard drive.
If a program code can learn for itself, can it be alive?
The question is however, inside the software prgramed, would we be able to create a Consciousness? and then how would we actually know they are conscious?
When we are born, do we have a Consciousness then or does our programming learn/adapt/develope unitl we become Sentient.
If characters became alive/ learnt, developed, grew on a level that showed they 'could' be conscious, then there is no way I could kill them, even if they where Only in a gaming world...
I mean, what if we where just Sentient 'programs' in a gaming world??? (The thirteenth floor anyone?)
It's me... no really, it IS me!!!
