(December 3, 2012 at 8:59 pm)jonb Wrote: Actually Are we anything more than robots?
I myself have been called a love machine .. that was just before the police came. Never mind. That is another story.
(December 3, 2012 at 8:59 pm)jonb Wrote: 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.
If they make a movie of this robot they should cast a young Woody Allen for the part.
(December 3, 2012 at 8:59 pm)jonb Wrote: I cannot see any reason to think we are other than machines.
Of course we would never have been able to think of anything in any light at all had human brains not developed that capacity. Artificial intelligence is really just an extension of our own. The possibility of inorganic consciousness along with the conception of ourselves as machines are all wonderful accomplishments of our (on this thread) much maligned human brains.
