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Dr Hanley finds a ready-made thought experiment to help him examine these questions in Data, the android perennially desiring to be human in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Indeed, the scriptwriters are ahead of him, for the episode called "The Measure of a Man" dealt specifically with the question of whether Data should be considered human, and though Hanley takes his examples from all the Star Trek programmes and films it is this episode he returns to again and again. Despite the popular guise, this is a serious book and when his arguments get going, Hanley makes few concessions to his non-specialist audience; but he does ask intriguing questions and makes a very strong case for his liberal interpretation of terms like ‘person' and ‘intelligence'. A pity, though, that from time to time Hanley doesn't just use Star Trek to provide examples but actually seems to assume that the script proves his case. --Paul Kincaid
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