Re: What if robots ever get hungry for human meat???

James Eades <jeeades@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:33:42 +0100, spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Jonathan L Cunningham) wrote:

Gerry Quinn <gerryq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <1190935095.411551.22200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
mean_priests@xxxxxxxxx says...
Ok, let's assume a scientist does develop a robot with
a stomach who is able to digest food as a source of
energy.

One day, a robot accidently eats human meat and its
so tasty that the robot has to continue eating human meat.

Soon, robots all over the world are hunting humans and
eating their flesh.

Would these robots be cannibals or just human-meat-eating
robots???

If we have defined them as human, I suppose they would be cannibals.
I'm not sure whether the question is as important as the more practical
issues involved with the situation.

(abg.mampf removed from followups)

If a spider eats another spider, it might not be cannibalism. It might
be like a human eating fish (same phylum, different class).

Ooops. Spot the (non-)deliberate error. Brain malfunction. All spiders
are in the same class (along with scorpions and ticks).

Jonathan

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