Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

[Esquilax]

Esquilax, your on-going duplicity is becoming a paradoy of itself. You've argued on behalf of all the positions I mentioned and then act like I haven't been paying attention.

Though I've argued for my own position, which includes some tenets of what you describe, I see no connection between the position you've laid out and the consequences you claim it has. Given that your argument appears to be no more than the assertion that this position has those consequences, I'm under no obligation to take it at all seriously.

Additionally, if my position doesn't match what it did in the past, consider that I'm capable of a little thing called "learning," and evolving my position as new information and consideration arises. I don't feel any particular shame in changing my mind on certain issues, and I'm wondering why you think I should.

A robot, whose functions are based on macroscopic mechanical processes, will not have consciousness or freewill.

I don't find that bald assertion particularly compelling. Right now, it's little more than a non sequitur. As I said before, we don't have a particularly comprehensive grasp on how consciousness functions, so you hardly have anything to base this claim on, regardless of how strenuously you wish to repeat it.

I will revisit the problem when presented with such a robot that actually seems to have either of those. Since the 1980's that's aways been about 10 years away. I'm still waiting.

Right, so you make a positive claim and then shift the burden of proof onto others, gotcha. Your position is ridiculous, and you are overstressing it outrageously.

Why are you so afraid of simply admitting that you don't know yet?