Do computers have souls?!

[yossarian]

So these gadgets and computers don't have "souls" per se, but DO have intelligent life? So am I enslaving an entity by using a comouter or a cell phone or a TV or a calculator?

Are you enslaving a rock by keeping it as a pet?

What if you break the rock with a mining pick?

What if you build the rock into a rockwall?

Slavery isn't a concept that applies to rocks. Rocks are intelligent but they aren't mammals. They don't have the same desires as you. You, as a human, desire food, shelter, freedom, company. Rocks aren't like you. They are doing their own thing and they have different desires and interests.

Rocks don't mind if you use them to build stuff or break them down into pieces. They actually really like being interacted with. In the same way you like a shoulder massage, rocks are tickled when you smash them together. They LIKE it.

If you're worried about enslaving someone or something, just ask them.

I asked a rock to tell me if it would feel enslaved should I toss it into the canyon. It didn't even know what I was talking about. Slavery is not something it has ever even thought of.

But it DID want to be thrown, because doing stuff is more fun than just sitting there.