Even conversations on IRC seem to be generated by humans. Kyon and the Talking Cat is a great clip and I totally agree with the cat. What I am saying (or writing) might well be understood in a different way by the other. It might even be heard as gibberish. Re transhumans: If a robot is conscious of inequality and expresses that awareness, I would certainly pause. If a robot is programmed to get revenge when it is treated badly, our engineers might have some 'splaining to do.How are you certain that I'm a 'human consciousness or a sentient being'? What if your the only sentient being and we are all philosophical zombies?
I'm not certain. You could have deliberately made a spelling error to trick me into thinking you were human. Still, I'd like to think that hubski is perhaps 99.9% human. -- that's one reason why I love meetups or reports of meetups. I've seen some faces. I've received postcards written in ink by what seems to be hands (although I can't be sure).Would that influence the way you interact with people? What happens when we get to the singularity and migrate our brains over to computers? Will you discriminate against transhumans?
I leave that to future generations - although the piece I posted recently about head transplants moves in that direction.