Are we really better than machines from the very beginning?

Johnathan 2022-03-25 09:01:23

Tima and the other robots are machines with the ability to think. The difference is that their life experience is different. Other machines are told that they are tools when they are born, and the purpose of existence is to serve human beings. Therefore, their perception of themselves is a machine, and they believe that the soul and personality do not exist.

Tima, who is also a robot, did not know that she was a machine when she was born, and the education she received since she was a child was the human identity education that Kenichi taught her. So she became a human being, and also possessed human cognition. This shows that robots are educated as human beings, and there is no ideological difference between them and humans.

And Locke, as the owner of the earl, has the execution and loyalty like a robot. Because he was raised as a "machine" since he was a child. Even in the body, the soul is a robot. This shows that a person cannot be human if he is not treated as a human being.

Therefore, our personality is actually endowed and instilled by others and the environment. Neither humans nor machines have self-awareness and clear identification. We have been discussing whether AI has self-awareness, but have we ever wondered how our own consciousness came from? Are we really better than machines from the very beginning?

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