http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=36477

This is the key to opening up new technologies that will allow us to create a more realistic artificial neural network. The technology is there, if not commercially available and efficient enough at the moment to put into use. But when our nanotech grows, our ability to create more human brain-like circuitry will grow as well. I think we'll see at least the beginnings of believable androids in our lifetimes, lest the world falls apart.

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Enlighten me, cock. I'm not up to date in this field but I wanted to contribute. Tell me why what I said is wrong or misinformed.

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Haha. I know it up to 4 digits. 3.141

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Ash, curious as to why you haven't expressed your opinion on the matter yet. You just seem to be polling people who enter this thread with your questions; are you jusst analyzing other people's answers to form your own opinion or something?

Well I've already got my opinion, I'm just more interested in learning others' opinions. My opinion was likely to be challenged by others without ever having to bother posting it, since someone was bound to say that they didn't think it was likely to happen, or that it was necessarily IMPOSSIBLE to occur. I didn't need to actually post my oppinion to have others examine it. My asking them questions is a way of probing their opinions.

For example, you stated that in order for a computer to "feel" pain, it would need pressure sensors and a pain variable with a certain threshold. I started asking you questions that would help you get to the point of how this is any different from a human being. Pain for us is just a variable arbitrarily called "pain", it is based on pressure sensors and variable thresholds. When pain occurs our bodies are programmed to perform various actions, such as move the body part experiencing the pain in another direction to avoid that stimulus. The only difference is that our pressure sensors are biological, not mechanical, in origin.


But hold on a second, what's the difference between the two exactly? We can make machines that use a soft water-proof and tear-resistant gel as a protective outer coating, a system of motors and servos to induce movement, a liquid temperature regulation and lubricant delivery system, and a steel skeletal structure.

If a machine is given a mechanical limb that uses a cellular tissue for skin, another tissue for muscle, a cellular support liquid similar to blood, and a calcium-based skeletal system, all of which were genetically engineered from the ground up by humans, is this a machine or a part of a living organism? Assume that this "arm" was constructed rather than grown.

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3.141592654 is all my calcutor could handle.

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Talking in a smaller size won't make you less of a geek.

oh come on...
just **** off and leave stickpage alone

you're not very good plague....
if you just have to do this **** then get yourself up and do something real
you ****ing nerd
if you don't have better things to do then trolling a forum then you're a dumbass

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Talking in a smaller size won't make you less of a geek.

I always prefer 'nerd'. 'Geek' sounds like it requires glasses.

I didn't mean you if you think that, Zed
sry if you thought that

i was just angry :D

No, I know you didn't mean me. I was talking to Cando.

good...

me, too :D

Well based on my opinion, artificial intelligence with "emotion" are already been developed nowadays. However, emotion may not be the correct word, if i must say, the robot are programmed to react with a certain stimuli. However i'm not against the fact that robots could show emotion at all, it's just that the human brain is more complicated than a computer. It consists of different "wires" thats different for every human. If you could see, the artificial intelligence that have been created could display around only seven emotions until now (such as the KOBIAN ), let's stop on that particular part shall we.

For those who don't read big paragraphs:
-anything physical can be reproduced
-emotions are physical
-therefore emotions can be reproduced


For those who read big paragraphs:
Let's look at what emotions can be. Either a) they are entirely physical responses to entirely physical stimuli, or b) there is a separate nature to them which transcends the empirical world.

If they are physical then there is no reason that they cannot be replicated. All that is necessary is to reproduce the exact relationship between input and output.

If there is an aspect of them which transcends reality, there is no way in which they can be duplicated by us because we have no more than empirical materials at our disposal. Non physical emotions are, however, a logical absurdity. Our emotions affect the physical world and the physical world affects our emotions. Therefore, if they were non physical, emotions would be causing particle movements and other things on a subatomic level which could not be explained by cause and effect as we know it. This could, however, be explained by a new law of physics. This would either map out a consistent pattern which had been found in the unexplained movements, or it would say that the movements occur randomly in a similar way to radioactive decay. If there is a pattern it can be built into a machine. If there is randomness (or weighted randomness with known probabilities) then this can equally be programmed into a machine, although it may require some actual radioactive material decaying within the machine to do it.

Therefore, no matter what emotions are or how they work, they can be reproduced artificially.