Mind Body Disputes

Does the mind control the body or the others around?

What is consciousness? Do you ever talk to yourself through your mind? Who is that person?

Any of these types of questions are wandering around in your head.

We used to discuss the idea of dualism which there are the physical world and the supernatural world.

We are no longer discussing such separation anymore, or at least, we do not care anymore.

Since we had science to lead the progress of the society, everything has changed. Better or worst, it offers better living styles and we discovered more from such processes.

But we seem to plateau at the moment with the progress of science and supernatural belief is slowly coming back.

Because human beings are afraid of being replaced by the robot, they argue that robot does not have souls.

But where are those souls?

Those souls are gradually evolved into intelligence.

And people argue that robot does not have intelligence.

So, does intelligence is part of the soul feature or is it the soul?

Again, a similar argument happens in the current AI trend.

AI does not have intelligence but it is artificial intelligence.

So how come a physical object suddenly acts like it has “a soul”?

The answer is that AI does something close to seem like an intelligence activity, but it is created by humans who determine how AI behaviors like humans.

In simple words: the programmer tells how AI works without creating consciousness for AI.

Yeah, I know, it is confusing and makes your head explode.

Let’s try this way, let’s discuss death.

Human dies.

A machine may die.

Why?

Because human has consciousness, and when a human dies, the consciousness stops. At least, this is a modern definition of death in medical terms.

The UDDA simply states: ‘An individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead.

It means your brain stops functioning completely.

Since your consciousness comes from your brain, you cease your consciousness to the point that it is irreversible, you then die.

A machine can be reversed into function anytime as long as it hooks up the power.

That proves machines cannot have a consciousness that can be rebooted.

And the machine can close to 99.9% of consciousness but it cannot become fully conscious.

Because what consciousness is has not yet been discovered.

The cool part of being conscious is you can go supernatural…or in other words, you can go crazy…

The machine cannot go crazy…or at least for now…there is no machine-built-only religion going on right now…

Can machines believe in God?

I doubt it, and I do not think machines truly grasp the idea about the God…

Similarly, machines have no moral sense.

What machine is acting just to mimic what human does?

They did not consciously act on their own behavior.

As far as the creativity goes, I think machine particularly AI has some forms of creativity depends how you define it.

Creativity is such a blur word.

Some think it is a way to create something new that does not exist previously.

It is no way to create nothing out of something.

However, if creativity is to borrow what is existing and further applies into the existing field to create something new, then AI does well because it is a part of imitation.

However, strictly speaking, AI does not have creativity with the same argument that AI cannot go crazy and does not grasp supernatural ideas.

So next time, if someone creates hype about AI, you may want to argue this way then.

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