O Tenente Comandante Data da Star Trek TNG é realmente um ser vivo? [fechadas]

Legalmente, os dados foram Defensor geral do juiz da frota estelar não estar vivo, mas ainda ser uma entidade senciente com o direito de autodeterminação .

PHILLIPA: It sits there looking at me, and I don't know what it is. This case has dealt with metaphysics, with questions best left to saints and philosophers. I'm neither competent nor qualified to answer those. I've got to make a ruling, to try to speak to the future. Is Data a machine? Yes. Is he the property of Starfleet? No. We have all been dancing around the basic issue. Does Data have a soul? I don't know that he has. I don't know that I have. But I have got to give him the freedom to explore that question himself. It is the ruling of this court that Lieutenant Commander Data has the freedom to choose.

_{^{TNG: Measure of a Man}}

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TORRES: I guess, you could say that the robots we use are servants in a manner of speaking. But they aren't sentient like you. In fact, we have only one sentient artificial life form in our society, and he is treated the same as any human.

3947: The same? He is equal to a Builder?

TORRES: That's right. He works on a ship just like you or I. He wears the same uniform I do.

_{^{VOY: Prototype}}

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