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Zubadar |
| | | | | | posted 7/10/2012 10:18 |   | | | | | | | | | I am an atheist/determinist and I believe that my computer is just as alive as I am. I basically can't understand the reasoning behind something being 'alive' at all. What is 'alive'? and what is sentience? I think that the feeling of being 'alive' is an illusion created by the brain to help motivate you, and that this feeling has caused people to believe in the 'soul'.
When I was really young, I used to believe that I was the only 'real' person, and that the rest of the population were machines... I eventually grew past that, but now I've thought about it more. Perhaps we are all just machines. I mean, wouldn't it make more sense to just consider humans very complex machines? It annoys me when I read all this stuff about artificial intelligence, and people constantly refer to it as a 'simulation' of intelligence. A computer's 'intelligence' is just as real as a human's.
"Ahh, but humans have emotions! Feelings! They can solve problems!"
Maybe human beings are the most advanced AI because our brain is given positive/negative messages that translate into feelings, and these feelings motivate us to do things.
If humans create an advanced computer AI, I think it would be best to program in feelings. I believe this is the most important thing for advanced/realistic AI. Feelings affect your desires, and your desires motivate you to do things! Once an AI knows what it wants to do, then it can use this problem solving process.
If an AI has no desires or feelings, then it's not really intelligent at all... This is because it was created with somebody else's desires/feelings in mind.
Here's a little example of something:
An AI is created, and people shoot it up and destroy it, nobody cares, because it's feelings 'aren't real'; they're just messages sent to the AI's core, that tell it that something undesirable is happening. What about when a human is shot up? All that's happening, is the brain is receiving messages that tell it that something undesirable is happening.
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