Post by JWSPost by Bob DuncanMarks: Non-Computable You Won't Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine
by David Klinghoffer
What aspects of human beings can't be duplicated by a computer
algorithm? Oh, just a few, including qualia (what life feels like),
sentience, understanding, emotion, creativity, consciousness, and
spirituality.
A computer can duplicate a Xtian because they
only regurgitate a specific set of GOB given rules,
caned phrases, and incantations. They don't really
do anything because they are always waiting for
something that is "coming soon". Xtians don't have
any of those above qualities because it is only the
GOB that "gives" those qualities to them. So an
algorithm to reproduce such a simple automata is
no problem for a computer.
I think Klinghofer was frightened by a couple old "Twilight Zone" episodes:
"I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury in which a robot has a humanlike
personality and helps raise a few children whose mother had died. The
other one (can't remember the title or writer but it was about all young men
and women of a certain age being given a choice of three beautiful bodies.
The women had three choices and the men had three choices. I guess that
meant that one one was gay. It also meant that all looked like the others in
the one they chose. One young woman, who figured out that they were also
changed mentally, didn't want to do this. She was forced to. That one
scared me, too. The first one was an AI. In the second, a new personality
replaced the old one in a human, though all the memories remained - they
just didn't care anymore. Obviously a way for the government to end all
rebellion. The people were 'happy', so they kept on making babies and doing
their jobs.
