Artificial Intelligence and Personal Identity

Alexander R. Pruss

Artificial Intelligence and Personal Identity

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Faith and Philosophy 26 (5):487-500 (2009)

Abstract	Persons have objective, not socially defined, identity conditions. I shall argue that robots do not, unless they have souls. Hence, robots without souls are not persons. And by parallel reasoning, neither are we persons if we do not have souls
Keywords	Contemporary Philosophy Philosophy and Religion
Categories	Machine Consciousness in Philosophy of Cognitive Science Personal Identity, Misc in Metaphysics Philosophy of Religion Religious Topics in Philosophy of Religion The Soul in Philosophy of Religion (categorize this paper)
ISBN(s)	0739-7046
DOI	10.5840/faithphil200926550
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