OK, I'll turn this around: suppose it's shown that human beings and only human beings can think and have emotions. Exactly why does that make us any less objects? And why should it be a bad thing to be an object? And why should it be a good thing, let alone the best thing, if we are the only type of objects that think and feel?
Curtiss, over quota and laying off for the day.
> However, the more that human beings are reduced to
> the level of objects, the more likely they are to
> imagine that machines could think. You see, experientially,
> the gap between man and machine is shrinking.