How much is a human worth?

[The Fury]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

The Fury said:
Human's have a soul, this is the priceless part, even if you don't believe in said entity. The human life and existence is priceless. Human life is fragile and can be lost by the smallest of things.

What you described as potentially becoming more valuable is AI recreating life and a soul, or synthetics representing life. This is not real, it's pretend, a bunch of protocols or electronic signals telling itself it is alive, not knowing to begin with. It hasn't learned and developed as life should to exist.



AI in fiction is the best example. Joss Whedon's piss poor attempted in his second story in Astonishing X-men is an example, A pure AI gained intelligence (from where this is unexplained, he's that great a writer) and he tries and pass it off like this 'life' is as important as any of the X-men. In the end it still an AI, artificial life.

Even though I don't believe in souls existence, I'll try to debate on your level. If someone was to clone any human being (sheeps can already be cloned, humans will be eventually), would that human don't have a soul and therefore be less valuable than an animal?

Late replies are great no? I don't believe souls exist either. But even the electronic signals within us allow us to think and feel. This existance is still priceless.

Modern cloning is still based on nature. They take a egg of the species being cloned and put the DNA of the cloned species within it, we as a race have no yet worked out how to create life from scratch, without nature's aid. A clone is still human as it comes from a human before (the sheep was still a sheep). Creating existance out of complete scientific progress or AI would be different to this. For many it might be hard to consider how a 'life' created from nothing can technically be real.