This isn't really about computers that simply follow an algorithm and base their actions on the result of their computations. There's nothing there, and shutting that off would be no different than turning off a calculator.
But what if we succeed in creating a machine that replicates the human brain? It would have emotions. It would have what we consider free will. It would have self-awareness and consciousness. Wouldn't that be considered a soul?
No a soul is a living life source. Metal will never breathe, it will never create more life (birth), it will not/cannot have a soul.
Would this "machine-body" be able to do anything besides keep the brain alive?
Realistically you can't be saying that anything can have a soul, can you?
If I punch my toaster will it cry? No
If I attach a brain to my toaster, then punch it...will it cry then? NO!
There is a scientific explanation for rotting that has nothing to do with a "soul", which as I said, I don't believe in. In fact, there are ways to keep a "soulless" body from rotting, just don't let bacteria and other things eat away at it.Because flesh is part of one's body *which the soul is attached to*, without soul and life....a body will rott. Metal will not (rust doesn't count).
Of course they have souls but they never lost their souls yet...that is why. Metal cannot gain a soul, it is impossible.
Because flesh is part of one's body *which the soul is attached to*, without soul and life....a body will rott. Metal will not (rust doesn't count).
I don't really believe in souls, but I do believe it won't be possible for a few thousand or even million years, when we understand life enough to create it.
Showing signs of emotion are completely different then acting them out. Robots would only act them out. Would they actually feel social connections with someone? Actually be sad if it lost something it "cared for"? Get nervous and actually feel "butterflies in it's stomach"?
No, just act.
I think we're arguing about two different definitions of "soul" here.
I ask you again, if something has emotion, self-awareness and free will, doesn't it have a soul?
Yes and no. Those are what makes up a soul, but without life a soul cannot exist. And the truth is just because a robot can think doesn't mean it is alive.
Life requires DNA. However, if thee was a man-made machine that actually felt emotions, then it would deserve rights, though if we're creating it's mind, we don't have to make it just like a humans, we're overpopulating anyway. We could simply not add emotions such as anger.Then define "life". If a robot is capable of feeling pain and pleasure, of having free will and understanding of itself just like a human, shouldn't it have rights? Or should be be allowed to abuse something that feels pain and sorrow simply because it has a different body than us?
Our brains believe, not our blood or skin, so part of it being steel wouldn't matter. If we could replicate a brain...it would take a long time(we'd all be dead by then), but it's probably possible, how else do they appear in the first place?Steel will never bleed, never eat/sustain itself, steel will never be able to believe in absolutely nothing.
Our brains believe, not our blood.
Plants don't bleed, yet they're alive.
Then what must it do to be alive? Have a soul?I wasn't saying all living beings must be able to do those things, they were mere examples.
Life and "Souls" are different in my eyes. I don't believe in a "life source", other then energy.Souls and Life are things that don't need to be proven, you know they exist just like air.
And even if you don't believe in a soul, then explain to me how something can live with no life....
If you can explain how life can be by-passed then I will be impressed.