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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9301192.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %REFLEXIVE DIALOGUE WHOLISTIC PARADIGM OBJECT SCI+930119 %TECHNICAL LEGAL ACCEPT REJECT PERSON MACHINE WAY 930119 If we accept the use of technical/legalistic grounds for personal acceptance---as a way of life; then we are bound sooner or later to find ourselves confused about the nature of persons and machines. As technology develops it becomes possible to make machines which can respond in programmatic ways which meet conditions for technical and/or legalistic acceptance as persons. Are we then to regard machines as just as "good" as persons; and perhaps even better than persons because they can respond acceptably without fail? Are the technocrats who can manufacture personally acceptable machines better than the machines which they manufacture; and better than the people who cannot manufacture such technocratic marvels? If so, our values and ideals are confused! (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================