I doubt my son would wipe a smudge off his forehead.
I’ve told someone to wipe a smudge off their forehead. Turns out she was catholic. Oops.
Was it Face Palm Sunday?
Yeah, I was thinking, “Hey, maybe they like the look of the smudge!”
With a sufficiently loose definition of “smudge”, cosmetic companies make billions of dollars a year off people just like that!
In fact, in “The Force Awakens,” he passes this test. He comments that someone may not be able to recognize him because of the color of his arm. So he is not only aware of a purely cosmetic change in his own appearance, but can perceive that others may be aware of it and that it affects how they perceive him.
If he’s not a self-aware being, the folks who have written all these movies are sure doing a great job trying to fool us.
He ranted at Chewie in ESB when Chewie put his head on backwards, so I’d say that shows self-awareness.
People, this is a society that BEFORE things fell apart had no real issue with creating a group of LIVING beings - not droids - whose sole purpose was to fight and die.
The clones are clearly indoctrinated slaves to the New Republic. There’s even evidence in The Clone Wars that they can be programmed and that orders can be placed in them dormantly to be executed upon receiving the proper code words.
Once you break through that sort of barrier, machine enslavement isn’t even a big step away…it’s actually a step backward to go to machine enslavement.
BB-8 does something significantly similar in TFA’s “droid, please” scene.
When the Empire came for Mira and Ephraim [Ezra’s parents], Tseebo tried to help them but he was afraid to do so and as a result, they were captured and taken away while their son Ezra was left on the streets. Ashamed for not being able to save them, he went to work for the Imperial Information Office and was implanted with a Borg AJ^6 device, sacrificing his personality for productivity.
(Note: Same as Lobot from Empire Strikes Back)
At what point would you say it would be akin to murder to destroy a computer? (Or put another way when should congress pass a law saying destroying a computer is murder?)
I don’t know, my dog recognizes herself in the mirror.
And thus, by the mirror test, your dog is self-aware.
Note, by the way, that I never said it was a particularly good test, just that it’s the best we have.
Asimov had a court in one of his short stories declare, “Freedom should not be withheld from any being capable of asking for it.”
Sleeper (1973) would be a good place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV2N4KSh3x4