(October 12, 2013 at 4:35 pm)HUMAN BRAIN Wrote: while watching a robot moving and responding to the surrounding events, we may ask …, with continuing development, can a robot , typically match a human someday ??, the answer is ' impossible' . We may manufacture a robot to make a 'decision or action' according to received 'signals' from the surrounding environment , or even to record data from 'previous' events, and use these data to make decisions… but , how can we let it make a decision according to what he 'likes' , or what he ' hates' ..??. in other words, to simulate this vague 'immaterial' 'sensing' being inside human body , which we call 'atman' , that 'feels' ??. So , whatever a developed 'robot' is , it will be no more than a simulation to our nervous system , which translates any effects from the surrounding around us ; sound, scene , touch ,…etc. , into electric signals , which , in turn are transported to us ; 'to our atman' , to feel . Even, the 'brain' ; this material organ , does not ' think ', but it is a complicated 'biologic computer' processor , which includes all types of data registers , memories, and logical gates,....etc. , Human 'atman' uses all these 'tools' to retrieve data, analyze , infer, and conclude ; in other words , to 'think' . Human body includes also systems for digestion , aspiration , blood circulation , motion , …. etc. , just to serve the nervous system , which is the (communicating media) between the 'material' world and the 'immaterial' human 'atman' . In other words , the human 'atman' wears the human body , which is just a (communicating suit) with the surrounding effects . But , with time , this suit is loosing the efficiency of its performance , until , at some date , it exhibits a complete failure, which we call 'death'. When happens , we have to leave this 'material suit' for land to be dissolved into another substances , according to the chemical and biological rules , in order to complete what is known as 'the circulation of substances'…., but what about the human 'atman' ?? , this still ' alive sensing ' miracle ??, after it left its 'communicating suit' , which was responsible for sensing ' only' the material world ….. how will be the new sensation in these new conditions ? .
One of the probable answers is that , it may receive signals and effects from a new world(s), which was screened from us by the low definite capabilities of our nervous system , which will no longer exist after death.....
Finally..., is it possible for this 'atman' , after death , to wear a new suit (body) , as happened first time....??
This discussion has already been covered in much more detail and with much better arguments in the philosophy section. Read up on them, you might learn a few things about where you go wrong.
First of all, there is no "vague, immaterial, sensing being" inside the human body. Or, more precisely, that so-called "vague, immaterial, sensing being" is the result of the way your brain functions. It has no existence independent of the brain. Which is why, should we ever replicate those functions in a robot, then that robot would be equivalent to a human being.
