>Not terribly interesting

>you have removed any semblance of moral consideration from the equation. And that, I think, few will accept

>what benefit is this article if it is simply one machine communicating to another

Are these arguments? What point are you making here?

>the experience each person has of living testifies against such a view. There is more to life, and to /our/ lives, than mere engineered material.

Why can't whatever experience of living you have be confined strictly within the bounds of materialism?