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A simpler version of yesterday's "What's a bird?"	by BaruMonkey	2006-11-19 12:55:59
Another entity that has 4 legs and a back, and	by BaruMonkey	2006-07-26 09:33:36
I think there's a difference between	by MatthewDBA	2006-07-26 09:36:32
So is the breed of horses a chair? (n/t)	by BaruMonkey	2006-07-26 09:42:33
No; a breed is not an object.	by MatthewDBA	2006-07-26 09:45:17
So a collection of chairs, then? (n/t)	by BaruMonkey	2006-07-26 09:46:41
No	by MatthewDBA	2006-07-26 09:50:15
Scientists have created a robot that can replicate	by BaruMonkey	2006-11-19 12:55:59
The creation of the individual horses	by MatthewDBA	2006-07-26 10:22:23
The creation of the individual chairs	by BaruMonkey	2006-07-26 10:26:55
I guess it depends	by MatthewDBA	2006-07-26 10:34:51
on the amount of "self-awareness" or volition one can ascribe to the objects. Generally, I would ascribe more self-awareness to a horse than to a self-replicating chair, and to that extent I would feel more comfortable saying that a horse had a "purpose" in reproducing itself which could be different than a human purpose in wanting the horse to reproduce itself. In other words, it would be hard for me to say that these self-replicating chairs had a purpose for replicating. Perhaps I should have said something like "That creation was done by the horses for a purpose other than providing good seats for their human owners." Since, in my interpretation, the self-replicating chair would have no purpose in reproducing itself, the same statement cannot be made of the chair.
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