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For anyone unfamiliar with Charlie Stross' "Saturn's Children" and "Neptune's Brood", it explores a far future where humanity is more or less extinct but the ga
by jimmcslim 4y ago
For anyone unfamiliar with Charlie Stross' "Saturn's Children" and "Neptune's Brood", it explores a far future where humanity is more or less extinct but the galaxy is being populated by (conveniently similarly anthropological) AI androids.
- eru 4y agoThe novels you mention also have AIs housed in bodies that don't resemble humans at all. (If memory serves right, the miners in the outer system have rather different bodies.)
- sneak 4y agoAre your children still human? The things being created and reproducing will still be humanity, just not meat-based humanity.
- HideousKojima 4y agoChildren are human, a chair I make out of wood isn't.
- sneak 4y agoA chair isn't sentient. A sentient being that you make out of anything is definitionally your child.