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From: sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: souls, ai, golems ...
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Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 19:52:47 EDT
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From: David Sher  
In general most questions about souls don't seem to be (to me anyway)
particularly relevant to judaism which is a religion of life.  But
if the question is phrased this way:

In the law, (if I got it right) a person is jewish if he/she had
a jewish mother and did not convert.  So lets say that a jewish
woman wrote a computer program so sophisticated that it was considered 
to be a person.  Is the program thus jewish? 

-David