| Magera said: great read. It's a tough one really... Some people would always believe that they are still just code. Still just something that could have no feeling beccause they are just machine/software and that is all. But our body's are also a form of machine, a organic machine. And our brains are very sofisticated pieces of processing power, capable of calculating and processing infomation in massive quantaties, as well as able to store infomation (memory), just like a hard drive. If a program code can learn for itself, can it be alive? The question is however, inside the software prgramed, would we be able to create a Consciousness? and then how would we actually know they are conscious? When we are born, do we have a Consciousness then or does our programming learn/adapt/develope unitl we become Sentient. If characters became alive/ learnt, developed, grew on a level that showed they 'could' be conscious, then there is no way I could kill them, even if they where Only in a gaming world... I mean, what if we where just Sentient 'programs' in a gaming world??? (The thirteenth floor anyone?) |
Thats where you have to ask the question. Do humans have spirits or not. Its true the body is just a mechanical thing, organic, but mechanical, kind of like an animal. An animal can make decisions but weather they are consious decisions or not is another thing. The human as the ability to step out of its own mind and look back in at the thoughts its making and recognise them as thoughts. A child is unable to diferentiate themselves as individuals until a certian age of brain developement. Animals brains never reach this point of developement and although they are smart and can recognise things, they are no where near capable of the complex thought processes of the human mind.
The human body is ruled by chemical reactions and electrons in the brain fired off by thing we see and hear etc (experience). Our body is a machine designed to act and react to the things around us, exactly like an animal. Animals are ruled by instinct, hormones and chemical reactions. The thing with humans though is beyond the mechanical nature of flesh and our brain we are capable of creating, and recognising creation. The human mind can dream. And im not talking in our sleep. There is alot more that goes on in a real humans mind then just mechanical physical things. Which is why I believe our mind is something that exists in the spiritual and our brain is simply a conductor that interperates our mechanical flesh for our mind to realise, or for our mind to controle the mechanical flesh outside of its hormones and chemical reactions.
This is why I believe man can never create a being that is just like himself. The thing will always be maths equations, like an animal. but even then it will lak the "life" that is in an animal that causes it to be alive.
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