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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Food for thought, though: we thought the same thing about all other animals until only a couple of decades ago, and are still struggling over the topic.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

...Just no. Animals are complex organic beings. Of course, we don't understand them. Machines, though? We built machines from the literal Earth. Their level of complexity is incomparable to that of anything made by nature.

Now, take a sufficiently advanced neural network that's essentially a black box that no human can possibly understand entirely and put it inside of that machine? Then you're absolutely right. We'll get there soon, I'm sure. For now, however, a physical robotic body is just a machine, no different than a car.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Yes they are. We’re now learning many animals are just as emotionally developed as we are, with well-developed empathy and complex social lives. We don’t like to believe that because we eat most of them and that makes us feel bad, but it’s true.

Research animal psychology and sociology a bit and it will blow your mind.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't disagree, and I am a vegetarian in part for those reasons 😊

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