Actually Are we anything more than robots?
It would make perfect sense to fit a robot with an awareness that part of it is not working and to make that awareness a priority so that it does not ignore the damage and gets itself fixed and to not use the damaged part. That awareness in the robot could be classified as pain.
If you created a robot that you wished to be inventive, a good driver would be that it looked about itself to find better ways of doing things. In other words it would be dissatisfied with its present conditions. If humans have evolved and our success is partly due to our inventiveness, a level of being neurotic would be an aid to that proses.
I cannot see any reason to think we are other than machines.
It would make perfect sense to fit a robot with an awareness that part of it is not working and to make that awareness a priority so that it does not ignore the damage and gets itself fixed and to not use the damaged part. That awareness in the robot could be classified as pain.
If you created a robot that you wished to be inventive, a good driver would be that it looked about itself to find better ways of doing things. In other words it would be dissatisfied with its present conditions. If humans have evolved and our success is partly due to our inventiveness, a level of being neurotic would be an aid to that proses.
I cannot see any reason to think we are other than machines.
