It's a similar concept, to be honest - the major divider here, however, is the machine being sapient. If the machine had animal-intelligence, I bet most people would vote to be able to put it down when they please.
Interesting thought, though - if cows were proven to be sapient (but silent)...
People are assuming the robot is built with the smartitude coded in directly.
What if the conciousness appeared due to emergence? Like, by chance, due to the way the software architecture is made, it gains the mind of a newborn child, but with a much increased learning rate? It's not been...
The whole point of taking medication is to stall the feelings enough for you to figure out how to break the negative feedback loops, by the way.
-Angry Lawyer
I also get depressive episodes from overthinking. However, I'd never give up the ability to think so much. Yeah, maybe I think about things more than other people, but I like thinking.
Typically, I try to immerse myself in something to the point where I'm just overthinking that. As nerdy...