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    $\begingroup$ Life on Earth is carbon based. Does that mean, when we build bicycles and fighter jets and fly fishing rods and tennis rackets out of carbon fiber, that's akin to making those things out of dumb, enslaved life? How about all of the carbon-based plastics that we use, and the carbon-based fuels that we burn? Is it creepy when a carbon-based man gives a carbon-based woman a solid crystal of pure carbon to entice her to mate with him? $\endgroup$
    – Ohm's Lawman
    Commented Apr 24 at 19:56
  • $\begingroup$ @Ohm'sLawman uhm, none of these things think, your analogy is heavily misleading. They are things, and on top of that based on entirely different chemistry. Just because technically both are somewhere carbon based doesn't mean anything. imagine however if we were to create machines using literal dna-cell-based neurons. Because silicon-based brains would work functionally the same as computers: (slight) impurities creating electric circuits. They are a million times closer to each other than humans and bycicles. $\endgroup$
    – Hobbamok
    Commented Apr 29 at 9:51
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    $\begingroup$ @Ohm'sLawman or are you made from pure carbon like a diamond? no, you're 18.5% carbon. 18% for your brain. Sorry but I find your comment almost ridiculous. $\endgroup$
    – Hobbamok
    Commented Apr 29 at 9:53