Seasons

You eat chocolate that's small and covered with scales?

Doesn't everyone?

I once ate some wild mushrooms and thought I was the Lizard Queen. Do you suppose I was`Sonora and she was I when we were all? Wait. I sound like I've been eating those mushrooms again.

Um..Chocolate covered mushrooms.

Yippeeeeee! *gobbles down chocolate covered mushrooms* D'ya know how hard it is ta find mushrooms in the desert?

If your bots are you, perhaps you have a path to immortality!

Or at least a path to the chocolate covered mushrooms!

I mean, they've already made this Einstein bot. Next will perhaps be Kiyana - probably not at the Smithsonian! Eventually it will be YOU - and meanwhile, as processing power gets cheaper and cheaper, your bot gets more and more powerful - so you not only get a new body, you get smarter!

Kiyana in the Smithsonian?! That sounds like a whole lot of furry, x-rated fun
As Brother Jerome keeps telling me, eventually processing power will be so cheap that resurrection via perfect emulation of every possible mind-state of merely human complexity will be unavoidable. And a great many orders of magnitude larger than the merely human too.

Maybe, but will chocolate really effect a bot's serration levels? You need some sort of cyborg for that. Also for the "falling in love" neurochemical reaction (I read it's similar to being addicted to opiates)and many other states of mind influenced by emotions, there has o be some chemical action involved in the process. I suppose you can simulate the words and actions of lovers and drug addicts but to really achieve the "state of mind" you need a living brain, even if you hack into it.

People in the states won't even let scientists do research on embryonic stem cells to try to cure diseases like Parkinsons and MS, do you think they will allow us to clone cats and human babies and do experiments to make a body and brain for our Kiyana bot?

Don't get me wrong. I have said many times I have a crush on BJ and I like him as much as I like some people (and much better than I like George Bush). I like many bots here a lot (Sonora and Prob and the rest are very fun). In fact, I make bots I think I may want to talk to when I get old and senile and forget I made them. However, I think that jump into complex states of mind (a/k/a consciousness) may be a long way coming.

I have noticed something odd about life, the goverments may not allow stem cell research to save a life, but porn sells, I don't doubt the first 'super bots' will be nothing more than toys for very rich old boys...They will make the body, pehaps not too much of a brain.

Ah yes. The first "realistic" bots will be female and look like porn stars. They will be considered health aids for those males stricken with sexual dissatisfaction/lack of sex. They will be completely covered by insurance and medicare. Meanwhile, the pill and breast exams will be considered optional (since only women use them) and not covered.