“A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated? (If the mind of one of the faithful is copied into a computing machine’s memory by mapping and simulating all its synapses, is the computer now a Moslem? If not, why not? If so, what are its rights and duties?)” from Accelerando by Charles Stross.
knight1192a almost 8 years ago
Pigs will eat anything
contralto2b almost 8 years ago
Chickens also will eat anything.
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly almost 8 years ago
Back to the old I.V. diet.
markjoseph125 almost 8 years ago
“A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated? (If the mind of one of the faithful is copied into a computing machine’s memory by mapping and simulating all its synapses, is the computer now a Moslem? If not, why not? If so, what are its rights and duties?)” from Accelerando by Charles Stross.