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11-12-2007, 08:53 PM
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|  What would you rather be than a human?
If you had the choice and you have the desire to be something else, what would it be and why?
My pick would be a sentient robot (not human looking). That way I could still think complex and deep thoughts, but not be bothered by emotions.
Ideally, it would be a very durable machine that can travel to other planets, but I'll take what I can get! | 
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11-12-2007, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by silent_enigma  If you had the choice and you have the desire to be something else, what would it be and why?
My pick would be a sentient robot (not human looking). That way I could still think complex and deep thoughts, but not be bothered by emotions.
Ideally, it would be a very durable machine that can travel to other planets, but I'll take what I can get! | GOD
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11-12-2007, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by silent_enigma If you had the choice and you have the desire to be something else, what would it be and why?
My pick would be a sentient robot (not human looking). That way I could still think complex and deep thoughts, but not be bothered by emotions.
Ideally, it would be a very durable machine that can travel to other planets, but I'll take what I can get! | GOD | Everyone can't look like me 
I'd like to be a wild jaguar in the rain forest...if there's any left. I just want to kill something with my bare teeth, eat it and nap.
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11-13-2007, 12:22 AM
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A table lamp.
Seriously though, as long as it was something without self awareness it would be sweet.
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11-13-2007, 12:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Geshtinnanna Everyone can't look like me
I'd like to be a wild jaguar in the rain forest...if there's any left. I just want to kill something with my bare teeth, eat it and nap. | can I be an OK looking god (just in lower case letters) ............please?
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11-14-2007, 03:11 PM
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I'm pretty sure I would be yoda  that would be awesome!
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11-19-2007, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by silent_enigma That way I could still think complex and deep thoughts, but not be bothered by emotions. | Being void of emotion is a very dangerous thing, you could commit terrible acts for apparently "logical" reasons. An intelligent robot would kill a hundred people to save two hundred, but humans wouldnt, because we have emotions, we can be empathetic, we would sooner try and save all 300, than murder some for the good of the rest.
Im not sure what I would be, but as long as I was free it wouldnt matter, anything fast, anything independant, but something that has reason and emotions, then Id be happy | |
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11-23-2007, 08:10 PM
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A dog, or a sea turtle or a house cat in Norway. | |
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11-25-2007, 03:27 AM
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Imagine life as a brain.
But with all honesty think about life being a sentient organic system as large as a universe, a infinitely large mass of muscle and hearts and lungs and organs that generated oxygen and everything else that would be needed to keep a being alive infinitesimally but on an unimaginably epic scale.
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11-25-2007, 04:37 AM
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Nice thread, Id be the "Thought collecting machine, where people would put in their thoughts and memories and store them"
Guess, thats what i'd be  | |
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