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i just had Biology and i'm really questioning deep things right now. I'm wondering why i feel like i should be social, why do i need friends, why do i need love, why do i need any interaction at all? Could i be happy with just food, water, shelter and clothing? No community, no way to talk to anyone, just myself to feel good about my accomplishments and what innovations i've made for myself. What if i did everything for me, not even thinking about other people? Granted, people who have no idea what i'm thinking might be very offended by such behavior.
People have already figured out how to make fake people. Machines are fake people. All we are is a series of electrical impulses desperate to keep the wires we run across together so we don't fade out of existence.
By the way, has anyone else seen the movie "Existenz"? Really weird movie.
So why feelings? Why can't we figure out feelings? Nevermind, we know feelings. They're chemicals that alter how the electricity flowing through our bodies moves. How fast, where to, how much. If we could reproduce the effects that these chemicals have in our bodies and put them into machines, i bet that would birth the first true AI. At least, the first Artificial Intelligence with emotions, but isn't that what we're striving for? Maybe we could hard-wire it so that when it's feeling a certain emotion, different pathways in its memory are closed off so it doesn't have access to those answers. Such as: when it's feeling passionate about something, logic is closed down so it can't recognize a better way to do or a better thing to believe.
Belief, that's another one. How do we recreate belief? What is that?
If we could do all this, would there be some religious zealots on the fabricators' case? Would they be able to say this is tampering with the will of God? I'm not sure how. Maybe from the standpoint that they are creating "life" without the sanction of sex, or of marriage. Anyone who might be able to give me a religious viewpoint, feel free.
I wonder if i might change my major... or if i just like my Bio teacher.
C'est tout.
People have already figured out how to make fake people. Machines are fake people. All we are is a series of electrical impulses desperate to keep the wires we run across together so we don't fade out of existence.
By the way, has anyone else seen the movie "Existenz"? Really weird movie.
So why feelings? Why can't we figure out feelings? Nevermind, we know feelings. They're chemicals that alter how the electricity flowing through our bodies moves. How fast, where to, how much. If we could reproduce the effects that these chemicals have in our bodies and put them into machines, i bet that would birth the first true AI. At least, the first Artificial Intelligence with emotions, but isn't that what we're striving for? Maybe we could hard-wire it so that when it's feeling a certain emotion, different pathways in its memory are closed off so it doesn't have access to those answers. Such as: when it's feeling passionate about something, logic is closed down so it can't recognize a better way to do or a better thing to believe.
Belief, that's another one. How do we recreate belief? What is that?
If we could do all this, would there be some religious zealots on the fabricators' case? Would they be able to say this is tampering with the will of God? I'm not sure how. Maybe from the standpoint that they are creating "life" without the sanction of sex, or of marriage. Anyone who might be able to give me a religious viewpoint, feel free.
I wonder if i might change my major... or if i just like my Bio teacher.
C'est tout.