At least our musical tastes would be the same
I've thought about the artifical life thing. What it comes down to in my mind is, how do you know? If 'it' acts exactly like the 'real' thing....
AI is a good example. Pretty soon they'll have programs that seem human discussionwise etc. how do you know? (I cloned that statement from the last paragraph
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Maybe if you solve a bunch of murder mysteries with parter R Daneel Olivaw on various worlds you might get an inkling
Pete