Will robots ever deserve rights?

[Veracity]

Jay520 said:

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 reason; reasonable; 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.

1. That was intended to be a reply to your statement about computers being able to respond yes to the question do you exist. I'm fully aware that computers are able to rationalize.

2. I would argue conscious is inherent to biological entities.it can't be artificially manufactured.

3. It's common knwledge that humans have emotions. We can measure them with neurology.

4. As defined by you, it's simply self awareness. Even severely retarded people are qualified in this regard.

5. Yes I realize you didn't like that example. I don't care too much about it. We can throw it out. Examples are numerous.