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Veracity said:

1. You miss the point that programming a directive is not the same thing as a rationalization.

2. you can simulate thought, but you cannot create it.

3. You can teach a computer what emotions are and a computer can simulate the emotion, but it will never truly emote. The same goes for conscious. 

4. Id rather not go into proving humans have conscious. That is a settled dispute.

5. You don't need to speak to have conscious. You say low awareness not NO awareness so you answer your own question.

1. A few definitions.

  • Rationalize: to employ reason; think in a rational or rationalistic manner. 
  • Rational: agreeable to reasonreasonable; sensible
  • Reason: to form conclusions, judgments, or inferences from facts or premises.

Please explain how programming would be incapable of any of these.

2. Definition of think: to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rationaldecisions, etc.

We are still debating "to have a conscious mind". But the other criteria can all be performed by a robot.

3. Are emotions required for consciousness? Even if they are, what proof do you have that otherr humans have emotions that cannot be applied to robots?

4. Oh really? Educate me.

5. This was in response to your earlier statement, where you said "Because every human, when presented with the question of "do you exist" responds in the same affirmative manner." to prove that other humans have consciousness. I have refuted this because some humans have consciousness, yet lack the ability to respond to the question "do you exist?" I'm speaking about severely mentally handicapped people here.