[FRIAM] Can a robot have a soul?

[Stephen Guerin]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 9:53 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> There seems to be individual differences in how people have responded to
> the longer stretches of the pandemic.   Some people lost benefits from the
> “open” system.  They lost access to their friends or lost their cadence.
> Other people didn’t really notice so much or even liked having the
> convenience of not having to run around so much.  If the Chinese did lock
> up Searle in a room, he would have no one to play footsie with, and maybe
> he would become depressed that he had no one to “charm”.   But others might
> not even bother to shake the door handle, and just enjoy the peace and
> quiet with their conniving managers at arm’s length
> <https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/work-from-home-benefits/619597/>
> .
>

I see what your point about a room for "social" isolation.

My thought experiment was using closed in the physics sense. ie, exchange
of energy but no exchange of matter with the surroundings. In a closed
physical system, Searle and remote workers are dead but the robot "lives".
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