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  %REFLEXIVE DIALOGUE WHOLISTIC PARADIGM OBJECT SCI+930119
  %TECHNICAL LEGAL ACCEPT REJECT PERSON MACHINE WAY 930119

     If we accept the use of technical/legalistic  grounds
for  personal acceptance---as a way of life;  then we  are
bound sooner or later to find ourselves confused about the
nature of persons and machines.  As technology develops it
becomes  possible  to make machines which can  respond  in
programmatic  ways  which  meet conditions  for  technical
and/or  legalistic acceptance as persons.  Are we then  to
regard machines as just as "good"  as persons; and perhaps
even   better  than  persons  because  they  can   respond
acceptably  without  fail?  Are the  technocrats  who  can
manufacture personally acceptable machines better than the
machines  which  they manufacture;  and  better  than  the
people who cannot  manufacture  such technocratic marvels?
If so, our values and ideals are confused!

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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