In July 2015 at a robotics lab in New York, a humanoid robot solved a classic puzzle called the wise man test showing that it knows what it was speaking that is it is self-aware. In that experiment three programmable NAO robots had that, two of them were given a dumbing pill that disables them from speaking, in reality; it was a push of a button. The three robots then asked a question, which was given the dumbing pill; none of them knew if they were still able to speak, they had to work that out. Unable to answer the question the robots attempt to respond to the question "I don't know"; but one of them were able to speak upon hearing its robotic voice it realizes that it can talk. With the new information, it corrects itself and says, Sorry I know now I was able to prove that I was not given the dumbing pill (ColdFusion, 2015) (Fieser, 2008) Three sources of knowledge define a conscious mind; the first one is introspection, this is when a person concentrate on own thought and understanding how they work. This explains why a human would choose one way instead of another, individual opinions and emotions. The second is how people act tells them more about how the feel, for instance, if one smiling means they are happy. Nevertheless, people hide their emotion, example smiling to hide their sadness; these two are the core knowledge about the mind that has existed since the beginning of life. Technology adds another tool, which is, physiological monitoring, this is where law enforcement forces use a lie detector to monitor blood pressure instabilities, revealing the anxiety, which assumptions are lying.
According to Fieser, there are three feature of consciousness, firstly, they are private, meaning nobody can experience them directly the same way a person can, even if they intentionally share those experiences. Secondly, they are non-localizable, there is no specific physical space in the brain where scientist can point out and say that where they belong. Lastly, they are intentional; consciousness experience is always about something, not void it could be a belief that brings about fear.
Assuming that a prisoner, James secretly gets a brain swap while in prison of a person called John, and then the warden realizes what occurred. He has to resolve which one of the two men stays behind bars and which gets to go home. Commonsense contends that James identity is with his brain, not the physicality; therefore, whatever has James' mind should be locked up. The assumptions are that a brain hosts human mind. Therefore, humans' thinks themselves as having the body not being the body. Descartes philosophy about mind-body union argues that the nature of the body is distinctively different from that of the mind, in that it is possible for one to exist without out the other.
(Skirry) Descartes argues that, the mind and soul are very distinct from the body they can exist without the body the soul is immortal. The decay of the body does not mean that the mind is destroyed; he argues this by referring to the basis of religion, which argues that there is an afterlife, meaning that it is a rational basis and not just an act of faith. In a scientific point of view, Descartes examines gravity and the facts that gravity moves the body to the center of the earth. He questions why stones to fall in the direction of the Centre of the Earth, and they do not have a brain to comprehend the idea as humans do. He separates the notion of substantial form as part of the physical world from the errors that credit mental properties like knowledge to non-mental things like stones, meaning that bodies exist and move as they do without mentality.
Robots cannot have broader consciousness as humans because they cannot crunch enough data, current cameras can capture more data about a scene than a human eye can, robots have no idea how to process all that information and come out with a cohesive picture of the world. When robots begin to pass the consciousness test, they will build and collect a collection of abilities that will turn out to be essential when combined. Robots will need to solve logical puzzles that require elements of self-awareness will be an important step towards building that understands their place in society and the world. This the same as a child learning lessons about their actual existence, therefore putting the learned lessons altogether, besides the physical things and how to perform actions, the knowledge that the child gains.
Robots cannot recognize their voices, by are not aware that they are speaking at any moment. They work by a brilliant programming combined with machine learning or connected to the internet. The distinction between humans and robots is that robots can never have phenomenological consciousness; this is the first-hand experience of conscious thought. These robots can emulate consciousness but can never experience it.
Another difference is sentient, the ability of anything to have feelings or subjective perceptual experiences such as joy, happiness, and emotions that come from listening to music. No artificial object so far has any sentient; this is the only aspect of consciousness has no explanations, a scientist as of late do not understand it, and many argue that it will never be explained by science (ColdFusion, 2015). Apparently, we have achieved robotic consciousness but in a very limited situation, but we are way far from achieving robotic phenomenological consciousness.
In 2001 movie, A.I artificial intelligent, it is about a robot child, named David who thinks if he finds the blue fairly, she shall turn him into a real boy, the movie basis is a Pinocchio metaphor. David is invented to help grieving parents deal with the loss of a child, the child, Martin that the AI takes the place of is frozen in case of an invention for his illness. The movie argues that if you design an artificial intelligence to implant on a parental host using a predetermined string of consonants, it will spend the rest of its life attempting to love those persons regardless of parameters or understanding of time, it will strive to gain the love of a grieving parent. Before Martin was brought back to life, the mother and the robot had an excellent relationship. Martin continually manipulates the AI to perform the actions to gain back the love, series of misconducts follows until a point when it almost drowns Martin which makes the mother abandon David in the forest. David's obsession with the Blue Fairy is to become a real boy because his brother wanted him to think that. 2000 years later all human are dead replaced by robots. The movie shows the faults of a robot grave desire to become a real person and the possibility that it cannot happen in real life, robots have no consciousness.
Ex Machina(2015) a programmer is invited to test if human robotics, AI can work, the objective of the experiment is to test human intelligence against artificial intelligence, to see if human-made machines are foreseeable in the society. Nathan and Caleb have their personal disagreement that disrupts the whole experiment. Nathan consistently undermines Calebs as a person, therefore, bringing a situation where either of them constantly wants to prove the other wrong. Nathan had created an AI that can work out any micro expression. Eva can create any emotion she wants and can tell how others are feeling. She can tell when other characters are being vulnerable or lying and exploit that against them. As a result, the AI manipulates the two characters.
A space odyssey (2001), the movie is about the crew of Discovery One that realizes that their onboard AI (HAL 9000) is faulty while examining an odd signal stemming from a massive black monolith on the moon. HAL sticks to his programming. Like Colossus, HAL never waifs from his original objectives, all of his ostensibly evil actions are carried out just because he believes it is the best way to finish the assignment; it is not a survival drive or emotion that makes HAL into a villain, just simple programming (Shultz, 2015).
References
ColdFusion. (2015, September 4). Are We Approaching Robotic Consciousnesses? Retrieved May 7, 2017, from ColdFusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTOMNkZJRao
Fieser, J. (2008). CHAPTER 3: MIND. In J. Fieser, Great Issues in Philosophy.
Shultz, D. (2015, July 17). Which movies get artificial intelligence right? Retrieved May 7, 2017, from Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/which-movies-get-artificial-intelligence-right
Skirry, J. (n.d.). Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In R. Descartes, Rene Descartes: The Mind-Body Distinction. U. S. A.: IEP.
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