I think you should assume that the radiation hardened, self healing computer would consider itself alive.
But importantly that's not us leaving. Some distant future descendent of humans could have engineered itself to leave, but it's not us and we shouldn't fixate on that distant and unknowable future.
I think you should assume that the radiation hardened, self healing computer would consider itself alive.
But importantly that's not us leaving. Some distant future descendent of humans could have engineered itself to leave, but it's not us and we shouldn't fixate on that distant and unknowable future.
But when it returns, would it say 404 or 42?