In my opinion, no. A computer runs off of programming and numbers not emotions. I feel like what makes a person is the spirit in them.
Yeah good point. So even if they became inditiguishable from a person, it would still not be a real person is what you are saying.
I think so. Unless there was A way to make them think themselves and feel themselves
What if there already is?
Mind blown! What do you think?
Just go on Youtube and look up "Robot Gains Citizenship in Saudi Arabia." Then your mind will really be blown. Let me know what you think once you've seen it.
I've heard of that robot! Super advanced technology which is awesome. But she is still using programs and data for her responses.
I guess that true!
I guess we kind of are too. But I wouldn't feel like i was murdering her if I turned her off Would you?
It's crazy though how something like that exists. Well I guess not Maybe it would just feel weird
So crazy! People are so smart to be able to create things like that!
What if she asked you not to turn her off though?
Wow that feels like a sci-fi movie. I would probably feel bad. But wouldnt that be any robots response?
I'm not sure. I guess it depends on the programming. The real crazy thing would be if she starting staying things that she wasn't programmed to say. Like that she picked up on her own and started to learn. That would be getting really close to actual human life. But I guess at the end of the day it is a spirit that has value. So if a robot "dies" there is no spirit. Just a lot of time and work from the creator that was destroyed.
So true! But I guess all of it is perspective. Where do you draw the line between personality and spirit? Because I feel like they could program a robot to have a personality and that could be interpreted simply as a spirit
Yeah that's true. I guess it comes down to faith. Because there are people that believe humans dont have a spirit and that we are just a product of our experiences. That we are simply extremely advanced mammals based on the product of billions of years of evolution. So I guess you just need to believe that a spirit is there and that is has eternal value.
Good point. At least from what I have learned, animals have spirits too. Maybe other people just have a different word for it than us.
Yeah. Well this was a very interesting chat! I have to get ready to go to work now! So I'll see you later!