What Makes Someone 'Human'?

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Seth, Jul 23, 2015.

  1. But they aren't told what to make the poem about when vague. They use inspiration instead of directions. If the AI is waiting for you to tell them what it should be about, than that's the point he's making.
     
  2. Children (elementary and middle school) are told to write poems and given a topic to write their poem about.
    Thus, children are not human.
    I called it, all children are the spawn of the dark lord. Be right back, my sister owes me 10 bucks.
     
  3. Watch ted 2 guys. Watch it...
     
  4. Roses are black,
    Violets are black,
    Everything is black,
    Oh god I'm blind!
     
  5. I think therefore I am
     
  6. Humans are given life and made by God.

    We have repopulated, Humans are given a free will without instinct. We follow what our mind tells us, not what instinct or calculations.

    Its impossible to make a robot that works without it having calculations that tell it how to run, so it can't have free will or else it will not work, so that was just a stupid comment on First Page.
     
  7. What makes someone?

    Simple!

    Not dealing with you ️
     
  8. How does a narwhal use a smartphone underwater with a never ending better?
     
  9. So this is life,

    Crabby indeed
     
  10. retweet
     
  11. We shud lern from teh termnaetor tew nowt mess wid rowebots and stuf.
     
  12. All animals think for themselves and make decisions...
     
  13. Sentience is a trait of humanity, but it does not define humanity.

    I define a human as any animal within the genus, "homo", so homo-sapiens, homo Neanderthalis, etc. would all be human in my opinion.

    One does not need to be human to be sentient, so therefore not all sentient beings are human. A very smart AI could very well be programmed to be like humans (though I don't think it ever could be... The human brain is heavily influenced by hormones that are part of its environment and subconscious thought (how would a computer know if something is threatening? That would be hard to program)

    To make a human-like robot would be pointless. Humans have flaws and fears because humans need to reproduce. Humans would rather fit in than solve problems and be smart. Robots wouldn't really have a need to feel scared of irrational things or believe in gods or spirits. Those are flaws of humans.

    Robots are tools... That is all. It would be too costly to ever use robots to replace human interaction.
     
  14. God doesn't exist.

    God was invented by men in the middle of a desert who had no idea what science was.

    Today the bible is "interpreted" differently by hundreds of people who use it to justify stupid beliefs. When faced with something such as Leviticus, which states that a woman who is raped must marry the rapist, and states that you should kill a man for working on a Sunday, and that you should kill your children if God says so, those same people brush it off as "poetry" or "not to be taken literally".

    Let me tell you something. The people who wrote Old Testament of the bible DID take it literally.
     
  15. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion 
     
  16. Evidentially I'm not entitled to an opinion tho...
    Has anyone EVER heard a 'Christian' say that 'God did not make me?'
     
  17. I mean, you didn't hear me. You read my typing.

    And there's a difference between opinion and fact.

    God made man. Then man made man.
     
  18. Support your claim with evidence. Cite your sources please. I'd like to see some scientific research that supports this claim
     
  19. Something cannot be made from nothing, which leads me to believe that the answer to how the universe was created is not in this one, but the last, or the one before that, or before that.

    The same goes for God. Wait, what was the topic again?
     
  20. This begs another question. What is "alive"?

    There are many organisms that are simply a series of chemical reactions and physics that causes more organisms to be made from the first one. They are like machines. All humans are is trillions of more complex forms of these machines that specialize tasks and work together.

    But, we place value on human life because we are programmed to think that way. Humans who lived in communities survived better than those who were alone, etc... The only reason we consider human life valuable is because other humans are programmed to think that way. An elephant doesn't give a damn about human life. Nor does a lion or a tiger or a bear. Oh my.

    Hypothetically, I think we'd be able to download our conscience onto a computer before we'd be able to create a conscience on a computer. Obviously if I downloaded my conscience to a computer/robot, laws would have to change to take this into account.

    Imagine what prisons or torture could be like if a consciousness could be downloaded onto a robot. It could literally be thousands of years that someone would suffer.

    What would happen if you copied someone's mind and then deleted the original copy? Would the second copy ever know?