Robots

[Sleeppy]

We're All Just Robots.. Humans Only Have More And Differing Options With Our Responses And Experiences Than Most Other Life Forms.. Or Actual Robots. Free Will Becomes More And More Illusory With The More Options We Have To "Choose" From, And With Less Knowledge Of Them, Their Number, And The Reasoning Behind Them. This Is More Our World, Than A Robot's.. Because Of Our Connection To It.

I'm Christian. And Because Of This, I Actually Came To, And Have A Better Understanding Of This Idea.

I Also Suggest That Robots Indeed Have A Lower Level Consciousness. Random And Weird?

 

[outhouse]

Humans Only Have More And Differing Options With Our Responses And Experiences Than Most Other Life Forms..

its because we are not robots.

 

[apophenia]

Do you realise that your post is made much harder to read by capitalising every word ? It may be Your Own Personal Style, but it will discourage lots of people from reading your posts, and irritate those who do.

hERE, lET mE gIVE yOU aN eXAMPLE oF jUST hOW aNNOYING iT iS bY dOING tHE oPPOSITE. sEE ? hOW mUCH oF tHIS wOULD yOU wANT tO rEAD ? pROBABLY nOT mUCH iF mY gUESS iS rIGHT.

 

[Sleeppy]

Do you realise that your post is made much harder to read by capitalising every word ? It may be Your Own Personal Style, but it will discourage lots of people from reading your posts, and irritate those who do.

hERE, lET mE gIVE yOU aN eXAMPLE oF jUST hOW aNNOYING iT iS bY dOING tHE oPPOSITE. sEE ? hOW mUCH oF tHIS wOULD yOU wANT tO rEAD ? pROBABLY nOT mUCH iF mY gUESS iS rIGHT.

Maybe we should wonder why it's irritating you or so easily discouraging you.. To me, that's a more important and intriguing question.

 

[Sleeppy]

its because we are not robots.

Is it pretty robotic of me to wonder why there's no explanation or elaboration?

 

[apophenia]

Maybe we should wonder why it's irritating you or so easily discouraging you.. To me, that's a more important and intriguing question.

I MAdE iT QuitE oBViOus WhY iT iS IrRiTaTiNg. YoUr PoSt Is AbOuT WhetHeR oR nOt HuMaNs ArE rObOtS, AnD Th E F ac T Is, We A r e Pr OgR amMed To D E A l WitH InFoRmAtioN i n a c e r T AiN w AY.

PoSt I ng L ik E ThiS TakEs A loT moRE E F foRt To BoTh ReaDandwrite. ThAtIsWhYiTiSiRrItAtiNg., WhIcHiSO.bviOus.

 

[s2a]

Maybe we should wonder why it's irritating you or so easily discouraging you.. To me, that's a more important and intriguing question.

No, not really.

ALL CAPS posts are always annoying...

...not important or intriguing to point out...they just always are.

 

[apophenia]

I Also Suggest That Robots Indeed Have A Lower Level Consciousness. Random And Weird?

Robots don't really have 'consciousness' at all. They are purely mechanisms, with stimulus-response patterns which may mimic consciousness.

A cartoon looks like living creatures at some level, because of the human tendency called 'animism', the same tendency which we all (or most of us) experienced as children, when we felt that teddy bears or dolls were alive in some way.

It is no evidence of consciousness in robots, only evidence of a human tendency to project anthropomorphically.

 

[waitasec]

i don't find it random....
i don't find it weird...

it just doesn't make sense.

 

[tumbleweed41]

It is a well known fact that only robots tend to capitalize every word in a sentence.

 

[Father Heathen]

Robots aren't self-aware nor have they the capacity for emotion.

 

[Sir Doom]

And lets not forget self-replication.

 

[Sleeppy]

Robots aren't self-aware nor have they the capacity for emotion.

What does it mean to be self-aware?

And lets not forget self-replication.

Emotion and self-replication.. Can both of these be implemented into robots?

 

[Sleeppy]

I MAdE iT QuitE oBViOus WhY iT iS IrRiTaTiNg. YoUr PoSt Is AbOuT WhetHeR oR nOt HuMaNs ArE rObOtS, AnD Th E F ac T Is, We A r e Pr OgR amMed To D E A l WitH InFoRmAtioN i n a c e r T AiN w AY.

PoSt I ng L ik E ThiS TakEs A loT moRE E F foRt To BoTh ReaDandwrite. ThAtIsWhYiTiSiRrItAtiNg., WhIcHiSO.bviOus.

No, not really.

ALL CAPS posts are always annoying...

...not important or intriguing to point out...they just always are.

So.. don't read it. Move along.

 

[Sleeppy]

i don't find it random....
i don't find it weird...

it just doesn't make sense.

Thanks for the input.

 

[PolyHedral]

Robots don't really have 'consciousness' at all. They are purely mechanisms, with stimulus-response patterns which may mimic consciousness.

Conciousness is just a thought process like any other. There's no reason to think a robot can't do it.

 

[Straw Dog]

I MAdE iT QuitE oBViOus WhY iT iS IrRiTaTiNg. YoUr PoSt Is AbOuT WhetHeR oR nOt HuMaNs ArE rObOtS, AnD Th E F ac T Is, We A r e Pr OgR amMed To D E A l WitH InFoRmAtioN i n a c e r T AiN w AY.

PoSt I ng L ik E ThiS TakEs A loT moRE E F foRt To BoTh ReaDandwrite. ThAtIsWhYiTiSiRrItAtiNg., WhIcHiSO.bviOus.

Is this a ransom note?

 

[Straw Dog]

Humans are always concerned with being saints, or sinners, or robots. Maybe we're just human beings.

 

[Sleeppy]

Robots don't really have 'consciousness' at all. They are purely mechanisms, with stimulus-response patterns which may mimic consciousness.

A cartoon looks like living creatures at some level, because of the human tendency called 'animism', the same tendency which we all (or most of us) experienced as children, when we felt that teddy bears or dolls were alive in some way.

It is no evidence of consciousness in robots, only evidence of a human tendency to project anthropomorphically.

What is consciousness? How does it differ from the mimicking of 'mechanisms, with stimulus-response patterns?'

Also what evidence is there for consciousness in humans?

 

[Sleeppy]

Humans are always concerned with being saints, or sinners, or robots. Maybe we're just human beings.

Maybe all of them?