(April 21, 2015 at 10:20 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: If we are not ones and zeros in a bio-computer, what do you think we are? What's special about a brain that sets it apart from a computer aside from complexity?
Messy chemical reactions and behaviors selected for over eons. Somewhere along the way a complex amalgam of cells developed a coordinated response system that out competed the competition. A computer can be made to survive. I'm not sure how it would ever come to care about that - except to mimic the care of its programmer.
Computers do functions. I'm not sure how it would do feeling states. If it never cared about its survival except in a programmed way like the one Asimov wrote about for robots, it is hard to see how there could be the sense of self Data exhibits. (Love his character in the show by the way.)
