Here are some interesting questions or thoughts that are brought up throughout Turlke’s argument.  

“ . . . whether computers are smart and what it is to be alive.” (p.338)  

“’After all,’ says one dedicated MUD player to IRC user, ‘why grant such superior status to the self that has the body when the selves that don’t have bodies are able to have different kinds of experiences?’”(p. 343)  

“ Are we living life on the screen or life in the screen?” (p. 351)   “It is a mind that is not yet a mind.  It is inanimate yet interactive.  It does not think, yet neither is it external to thought.  It is an object, ultimately a mechanism, but it behaves, interacts, and seems in a certain sense to know.  It confronts us with an uneasy sense of kinship.  After all, we too behave, interact, and seem to know, and yet are ultimately made of matter and programmed DNA.  We think we can think.  But can it think?  Could it have the capacity to feel?  Could it ever be said to be alive?” (p. 351)  

“What does it mean to think?” (p. 354)   “What does it mean to be alive?” (p. 354)  

“ . . . the question of whether an artifact can be a life.”(p.354)