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4.3.09

Humans and computers (and lots of questions)

Has anybody watched "I Robot"?
It makes me think.
Must we bind advanced robots and machines to our commands to prevent them from harming us?
Do they have a soul?
Do they have feelings? Will these stop them from hurting out of malice(if a robot can have that)?


Many argue that because robots are mechanical, no matter how advanced or high thinking-order they are, they will never be "equal" to humans and they will never have a soul.
Read on, and wonder, whether you agree with me or not(wondering is great).
When computers or AI become "high order" through extensive use of neural networks, will they begin to have feelings?
Well, first, we must look at how humans have feelings. Did we have feelings because we had feelings then expressed them with expressions? Or did we start off just having expressions to communicate with each other as hominids then come to embody them so much that we began to have feelings? Nobody knows.
But if feelings were created from a soul, and souls come from animals(and maybe even plants?), and animals come from carbon, then, can feelings come about from souls, that came from machinery(because even the most human-like AIs are just machines), that came from silicon?
If this is possible, why won't advanced AI have feelings?
I don't mean to create souls, that would be taking the place of God, but creating a body that can accomodate an entity with feelings(like in Xenocide and Children of the Mind from the Ender quartet). Is something like the "computer mind" Jane possible? An entity that can live in a mechanical mind as well as a carbon-based mind? Or even, are all humans like that? Is there a vast, empty space filled with body-less living entities that is extra-dimensional such that we cannot access it? Is one entity, or aiua, pulled away from this vast, empty world and pushed into our universe when an organism comes to exist, whether it be an alien, an E. Coli, a plant or an animal(human or non-human)?

Will we ever have AIs as our equal companions, just like humans?
Will, silicon-based machinery ever feel sadness, happiness, or love for human beings and each other?

We may never know, but my mind never stops wondering.

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