[Steven sighs deeply, counts to ten, and rakes his fingers back through his hair.]
I'm not going to get too in-depth in arguing with you and admittedly my opinions on these matters are largely a product from years of science fiction with robots and AIs as fully realized characters (and also from how my baby sister used to tell me when she was small that she was going to make robots someday and I'd have to be a good uncle to them.)
But to me, that doesn't say 'not a person.' That just says 'not alive.'
But maybe being alive or originally having been alive (because arguably he is alive now that he's human here) *is* part of *your* definition of person, even though it's not part of mine.
I'm glad you won't forsake him. But you should probably be prepared for him to leave *you* if that's how you view him.
He can stay here if he does. I'll talk to Jack about it.
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I'm not going to get too in-depth in arguing with you and admittedly my opinions on these matters are largely a product from years of science fiction with robots and AIs as fully realized characters (and also from how my baby sister used to tell me when she was small that she was going to make robots someday and I'd have to be a good uncle to them.)
But to me, that doesn't say 'not a person.' That just says 'not alive.'
But maybe being alive or originally having been alive (because arguably he is alive now that he's human here) *is* part of *your* definition of person, even though it's not part of mine.
I'm glad you won't forsake him. But you should probably be prepared for him to leave *you* if that's how you view him.
He can stay here if he does. I'll talk to Jack about it.