Comment Fundamental Question (Score 1) 630
So, the fundamental question is this: If the state of a human could somehow be replicated completely, down to the very molecules and their positions, and you made two identical copies of someone -- would those two copies act exactly the same? (obviously up until the point that the were influenced differently by their environment) If the answer to this is yes, than machines will someday have just as much of a 'soul' as humans. If the answer is no, than somehow a person's soul gives them non-deterministic properties which could be the basis of religious beliefs of how humans are different from non-sentient life.