Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-05-05]: The first fully automated flying vehicle of Boeing completed its maiden flight [source: CNN News]. If this machine kills, who does the killing? If the machines conduct our wars and killing of people for our behalf, a key source of deep regret will have vanished… Let’s go then! Let’s become machines! Is it not what we look for? Is it not the dream of “humans”? Living without responsibilities and without remorse? But if all these happen, we will cease to be the being that created literature, poetry, art and we will have become something soulless and cold…
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