[quote]But if I wrote a piece of software that could do everything a human could do, then how would that computer still be less alive then us?[/quote] We pump blood, it doesn't. I do see it from your POV though. There will eventually be a point in time when a computer will stop being a computer, I just think we have a long way to go before we have some thing that is like i-Robot. This post is from -- http://socoder.net/index.php?topic=2216