Q&A: what do you think makes us different from programs..computers..”robots”?
Question by little bird: what do you think makes us different from programs..computers..”robots”?
almost all humans have a similiar way of doing things…some think the same, ect
this same pattern.
our body is made to do whats it’s supposed to do and “operate”
how do we know if what we think is “real”?
were we “made” to think this way? the “emotions” we feel: hate, jealousy, happiness, sadness. is that how we were programmed to feel?
when we start making completely human-like androids and they know how to portray those feelings, what will make us human?
Best answer:
Answer by tylertrain
if you think about this too hard, your head will explode (I have the scars to prove it)
the question you may want to ask yourself is this: if we have human-like androids, why should they have human feelings? shouldn’t they be allowed to develop their own feelings?
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You can debate that we are robots, but its an endless loop.
We run on electricity. Our brains use electricity to work just like robots.
The difference is that at its basic, computers are just math machines and a brain is a reaction to chemicals.
From what I can tell, humans don’t use calculations to work out things, instead we use logic.
We will never know that if we told an android to feel sad that it would actually feel it. We can only tell it to act as if it feels it.
Frivolous answer: Huh? We ARE just programs running in a huge computer. computer. computer. …
Serious answer: We evolved this way. Groups that did things that led to their demise didn’t live long enough to have descendants alive today. Same with those who couldn’t think in a way that allowed them to have descendants … etc. “Survival of the fittest” – actually survival of those fit enough to survive – is a trivial concept. If you get conceived with the traits needed to survive long enough to raise children to adulthood, you’ll pass those traits on. If not, you’re not “fit enough to survive”, and those genes get weeded out of the gene pool.
When I moved into my house (it was an almost uninhabited area), squirrels would dart this way and that when cars came down the road. We had lots of dead squirrels every year. These days (almost 40 years later), when a car comes, a squirrel darts to the nearest shoulder – and sits there. If I see one dead squirrel on the road a year it’s a lot. They “evolved”. There are no more lines of squirrels with “dart all around” genes in the area – they all have “run to the shoulder” genes and “cars don’t chase you once you’re on a shoulder” genes. They’re still squirrels, but a different kind. They may well ask how they come to be “made” “knowing” that they can safely sit on the shoulder. They’re just the descendants of squirrels who had those genes.
(Evolution has no purpose – it just works. If the meteor hadn’t fallen 65 million years ago, we might well have “scale-dos” on our heads these days instead of hair-dos.)
Different than robots? We evolve, machines don’t.
At the most basic level, our own mortality drives our emotions.
Humans can die. Awareness of this drives us to passion and makes us want to “live on” either through our work or through re-producing. And of course we biological entities still have to eat, sleep, and generally survive, so that drives us too. And because we are all in the same situation, empathy for each other supplies further motivation.
No matter how sophisticated we make computers, they will never be “alive” and thus you cannot have a robot who can (a) die, and (b) care about whether or not it dies. We cannot give a robot an honest survival instinct. Electronic circuitry only does what it’s told to.