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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2630569" data-attributes="member: 3649">If they're sentient, truly sentient, then they should be able to do all of those things. I think and self-aware intelligence is going to have a sense of aesthetics. It might not be anything we could understand or comprehend, though.I think if you get self-replicating machinery, especially real honest-to-gosh nanotech that's capable of rebuilding atomic structures (rocks to bread? No problem), you get rid of the subsistance farmers and the like. There's no need for them to do that anymore.Really, though, we can't imagineer things much past the point of singularity. What we think of as human will change in ways we can't conceive of. Just some of the stories I've read... the difference between tech and not-tech breaks down. Everything is a computer, and is alive. People switch their consciousnesses between bodies, or into animals, or into clouds of microscopic sensors,  or clone their minds a dozen different times and go off to lead seperate lives only to merge back later with a dozen lifetimes experience. There is no difference between AI and non-AI, either; consciousness is consciousness, with no regard between meat or not-meat. That would be just the tip of the iceberg, too.</blockquote>