Still, their different matter is evident. It may even be easier to deny a machine a “life” − a feature that even the most stupid worm or thread of grass possess − than the possibility of a soul. Robots and spaceships in science fiction do not live, but some of them have been capable of suffering and desiring and dreaming and loving.
Eppure balza agli occhi la diversa materia. Più facile negare a una macchina la vita − prerogativa del più stupido verme o filo d erba − che la possibilità di un anima.