Re:Sentient life (Score 1)

Even if you ignore the ethics of it (pretend pulling the plug is ok-e-dok-e), the real question is what position does evolving/creating systems that "engineers" and humans in general don't understand put the world in? Society has shown us that the human race as a whole, (but maybe not all of us) loves systems. It can be governments, schools, churchs, whathaveyou. Whatever it is that lets us understand that big picture which is beyond our grasp. Well what happens when the actual functioning of these computers, the pinacle of human control, falls outside of all of our methods of understanding systems? We lose control. Oh well, gotta catch a plane. Oh and I just watched the Matrix for the 4th time. That'll probably do it.