RE: If You Didn't Know
@tobetada hello!! Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check out the novel out right away. Good questions,
We find ourself right in the beginning of a periode in which these questions will be highly necessary to discuss with everyone. The earlier the better.
Right now we can not see compassion in robots, but we are programmed to - so isn't there a possibility of programming this in a machine as well? When humans are programmed to have empathy, love and compassion?
And how about when we manage to program biological things? Will we be able to program and create a fully functioning biological human?
I guess if so, it might take another 50-100 years? I guess.. Or with the technology raising exponentially I actually have no idea when this could happen...!!
Have a wonderful Sunday!! hope to hear from you again, love your reflections :D
If we are just programmed so to speak to have compassion then I think it isn't compassion. It is impossible to prove that there is such a fundamental thing as love (which gives rise to compassion), but subjectively it exists. If the mind is quiet is can feel this quality and it is this quality which I am skeptical of that robots can ever feel it. Sure, it can be programmed, but it's not the same thing on a deeper level.
Of course maybe that doesn't even matter. Maybe people will be okay with robots emulating this quality. But there is something in my heart that tells me that this is fake, and not the real thing.
I totally get you on that, this will be such an interesting thing to follow.. I just hope I'll stay alive in order to see where this journey will take us. I'm one of those hoping to keep staying alive as long as possible.. he he!