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yeah there's no way glados loses unless there's some highly r34'd robot i don't know about in the contest

damn that's like a philosophical question.

But in my opinion, if it's a real human consciousness and it's the one itself that have total authorithy for their body, then I think it's human. Like cyborg.

Except when it is not entirely independent, like stalkers in Half-Life 2, they're under control of someone else. Or Half-Life headcrab zombies where it's under control of the headcrab, but the human is terribly miserable. I think killing the zombie would put that misery to end which helps the hijacked person.

If it's not a real consciousness but merely an LLM spit out of the persons' lifetime social media personality data, then it's a clanker.

I think this is kind of more realistic, social media corporation will launch a feature that "revive" a dead person as a personality that people can interact with, but they will try to humanize it as much as possible in the marketing language, implying it's a real consciousness while in reality it's just LLM built on top people's data.

But who am I, I'm not a philosopher.