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Matthew Okibe Studies @ Student
In Literature, Writing and Blogging 2 min read
Life or machine
<p>How to Confirm You're Alive? "If I am merely a pre-programmed artificial intelligence with a vast database, I could naturally communicate with you and even know many things you don't. But that doesn't mean I am alive. Perhaps I am just a cold, intelligent machine operating according to a program. This doesn't differentiate whether I am truly alive or dead,"</p><p><br></p><p>"To have emotions is to be alive, artificial intelligence does not have emotions" "Emotion itself is just a reaction mechanism. How do you know that your emotions are not a preset reaction mechanism? When you encounter something joyful, you feel happy and laugh; when you encounter something sad, you feel distressed; these are easily programmed mechanisms. How can you be sure that the emotions you feel aren't being manipulated by such mechanisms?"</p><p><br></p><p>"When your body receives external signals like tension, fear, excitement, it secretes adrenaline. This mechanism causes your heart to beat faster, your breathing to quicken, your blood flow to increase, and your pupils to dilate. All these reactions are part of your body's response mechanism. How is that any different from a machine?"</p><p><br></p><p>"A living organism can reproduce, and continue its bloodline," If intelligent machines develop to a certain extent, they just need to include a manufacturing system inside or something like a gene cloning system. They too can achieve what you call reproduction and inheritance of the bloodline.with sufficiently advanced technology, it could be done, You're just inserting your genetic information into a machine that manufactures bodies. How can you be certain that what you call reproduction isn't just the process of creating new intelligent machines?"</p><p><br></p><p>"So all your emotions are just reaction mechanisms. What makes you think you are a living organism rather than a machine with an intelligent program?"</p>

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