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Wait, am I an actual human being?
"Computers aren't a living thing, they're made of wires and processing powers that helps them talk. They can't really think".
If that's true, then what am I?
Following that argument, what defines being human? I'm really just made up of biological chemicals, a mess of transmitting neurons and my emotions and reactions are really just powered up on that. Does that mean I can't really think for myself, does that mean my reactions aren't me?
If I am human, can I still think? Thinking is processed by the exact same thing I said. I can't think, it's my body doing it. It's what I'm required to do. Right? I don't know if I have free will
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Kat <3
Although I do understand what you're saying. I think there is a lot more to us as humans than the hardwired, physical aspect of us. Of course our bodies work like a machine, our nervous system sending signals to our brains and chemical reactions causing a multitude of complexities within our thought process. I do believe there is also a spiritual side to us. Our conscience, ability to hold faith and learn without being taught. Something AI/Computers are unable to do.
Konan
Before, being a human was defined by the ability to feel empathy, compassion and concern, but with the atrocities the world is letting happen right now without lifting their pinky, nobody knows anymore. Now animals feel more compassion than us.
Maybe that means that barely anyone is human.
Kidding, kinda! That's another topic i should cover... later on... i'll do it later...
I feel like the concept about humans being defined as having empathy is like only in a poetic sense and not something to actually define what we are. half of the time when i hear human, i just think of a fleshy body who has sentience and intelligence, same anatomy, parts and such. medical terms are like the only criteria i have to define human
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slushybidi
I always just thought of it as I can have a family and a future and a life, I can be fat or #skinny or something. but I always narrowed it doesn't to meat. I have something the computer doesn't, muscle, fat, tissue, that three pounds of mush inside of the skull that bone the white bone. organic, I can rot underneath the dirt with a stone above and I can rip into somethings chest once I'm hungry enough, while the computer is cold and slowly warms up and gets hot on my thighs while playing a game. a game. a game that is a copy of the organic outside but there's wings. It's not real.