From:	Jonathan Andrews <jmandrews@*******.EDU>
Subject:	Re: The talks on my Cyberware post.
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 21:09:43 -0500

On Fri, 1 May 1998, Brett Borger wrote:

> Ah, but Essence is not a measure of man vs. machine, but rather a
> question of "themselves-ness". Certainly, they can reduce the
> "machine-ness" as you say, but not 99%. A data could never be .001
> essence because it isn't organic, and doesn't perform human
> functions.
>
Well, sure... But. What if you were to make the data more human in form?
They might be able to do that--seems like the logical extension to me...

Jonathan Andrews