RE: Do atheists believe in the existence of friendship?
May 19, 2023 at 11:02 am
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2023 at 11:06 am by KerimF.)
(May 19, 2023 at 8:50 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Humans aren't robots by definition.
robot
1. (especially in science fiction) a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions automatically.
Our brain functions being explainable electrochemically doesn't make us robots; robots are machines that emulate humans in some way. It also doesn't follow that we are 'programmed'. We are able to think about our actions and act accordingly, the opposite of 'being programmed'. When we don't arrive at decisions by thourght, we can fairly be described as 'acting according to our programming'.
"What is the meaning of being programmed?
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English to be programmed: if a person or an animal is programmed socially or biologically to do something, they do it without thinking.... All birds of this species are programmed to build their nests in the same way."
Whenever you think to reach a decision, you are actually executing some complex conditional branch instructions (as if... else... etc.) preprogrammed in your body.
The definitions given in dictionaries are certainly made by humans too. And humans, in general, are not supposed (by design) to be aware completely they are just an evolved version of animals. The only difference is that their preprogrammed instructions have also evolved with time and become, to a great extent, much more complex than of their far past animal's ancestors.
Doesn't an AI robot seem to think when you ask it a question or have a conversation with it?
The only difference is that we know it is robot because we can also know the company which produced it.
But, in case of humans, since the Company of the Will behind their creation cannot be seen, a human can easily object whenever someone tries to show him how close he is to a man-made AI robot.
The only real free-will that, a human may have, is his ability to oppose, or not, his preprogrammed instructions embedded in his living flesh (like allowing some attackers to kill him while he had all the necessary the means to destroy them). After all, let us recall that it would be really silly that a robot is also allowed ny its maker(s) to ignore its inner instructions. This is why this exact real free-will makes a human be different from all sorts of robots.
