If record companies want to limit how I use an over-priced disc that I purchase legally, they need to start putting readable licenses on the packaging. If the scrambling causes a problem, a campaign to stop it may be in order. There was some stuff I would change, but overall I enjoyed it. Since this film brings an area of computer science and philosophy into pop culture, I am going to use it as a springboard for discussion on the general topic of AI and transhumanism . When considering AI, we have to determine what separates a sentient being and a program.
Functionalist philosophy tries to put mental states into transcending functions.
For example, a pain function would be the same no matter what the being having the pain was made of. In the case of the movie, love is a function that transcends to mecha with the advent of David. But, I am not a functionalist. No matter how closely a machine can mimic human processes, they are not cognate. They are hardware running software.