[Kuldeep]

Quote by: SoylentGreen Hmmm! do I sense a touch of xenophobia here? Some ancient lord muttering how slaves would NEVER be considered FREE.

Not exactly in those terms dear ! I only meant the way we consider human, animals, birds, plants etc alive, we would NEVER be able to consider programmed A.Living machine alive. Probably I mean from emotion point of view.

Oh goody now my turn to wrap your head around some existentialist mind warp.

How can you do that when you are not aware what mind is ??? Since in your next sentence you asked me what MIND is !!!

How do you define MIND, and what is BEING?

I like such questions since while wrting my post I expect such questions.

Though, I have defined both the terms many times in my posts else where, I repeat for you as:

MIND is a metaphysical bridge between the physical stature of a living creature (Note: I have purposefully removed being since that I would define next) and BEING which turns living creature into an INDIVIDUAL.

BEING, also a metaphysical term, on ther other hand is the UNIVERSAL
CONSCIOUSNESS. which is the basic life force and is eternally existing all around...you may term it even God or anything else.

Elaborating a bit so that my clumsy looking definitions of MIND & BEING would be grasped to some extent by all....Look at the following reversible reaction

World Environment <===>Physical Body<===>MIND (Bridge)<===>BEING

Living creature interacts involving all the four reactants and products as you would call them as a chemist. While; Artifical Machine would always limit their interactions to first two reactants and products ( World Environment <===>Physical Body). Without elaboration the last two reaction and products [MIND (Bridge)<===>BEING] are responsible fior emotions, ego and feeling of existing as some individual.

brain? in the root?

This at present is just a hypotheisis. The way human and animal is not able to survive without the brain (existing in the head) but continues to live even if any limb, or any other internal or external organ is removed (with exception of some). Same way plants continue to live if its branches and leaves are removed but can never live if roots are removed. Based on this similarity based on logic funda I went to say plants brain must be existing in its roots if at plants do have brain, mind and are beings like humans and animals