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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8830541" data-attributes="member: 4937">There isn't going to be any magic about it.  Sooner or later we'll have computers that pass the Turing Test on a wide variety of fronts and then we're going to have to deal with what that means and what we think about it as a species.  It's a topic requiring the utmost maturity and wisdom.I don't think so.  I don't think it would be childish to suggest animals, though they are not persons, have rights although they are not perhaps the rights of a person.  I don't see therefore how it is childish to suggest that something which has even more of the qualities of the person has at least as much need for rights, abliet not necessarily exactly the same ones as either a person or an animal (as it is not necessarily either of those things).  And this is a major topic of a lot of very non-childish Science Fiction, including I think this Andor show.  I could give an extensive reading list.  So I'm not following your argument.I don't think I've suggested that Andor is a show for children, and I am probably one of Andor's biggest fans and evangelists.  I do think I'm the sort of fan it was designed for.  I don't understand the basis of your claim.</blockquote>