A machine could NEVER ever think or feel like us human beings . I have read something interesting in “Technology Review”. It seems that there are many explanations, about how our conscious mind works, but there is always something else to it. Something missing. Is it comparable with the soul? Well, that essay says that humans are conscious, and computers not. Computers are made to run programs, and they don’t “care” what is being computed. They don’t have imagination – don’t have a wide perspective of the whole panorama called “life”. And programs aren’t “alive”. There must be a human in front of the screen to bring it alive, or understandable. What to say then about feelings? A spiritual experience? And so on…
The author makes a clear statement on what computers do, and don’t. I agree with him. Computers could one day simulate our human reactions, based on a program. But still, it would be like cheating, duplicating our reactions. I won’t even say that they could imitate us. They would never have a conscious mind. Read the essay “Artificial Intelligence lost in the bush”, in the July/August 2007 issue of Technology Review magazine.
