Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20190906011835/@comment-38068589-20190909215441

SeedSpeed wrote: Sergent Pepper wrote:

SatanLovesJello wrote:

I can make this argument because there is one thing that hardware and software can never do. Emote.

Sure, they could simulate it. However, in a nutshell, the most influential aspect of an experience is neither through the physical sensations nor the body's observations. It is the awareness that the experience is truly reality versus a reality that is simulated. That awareness generates emotion.

The only exception would be a "Matrix" type reality, one in which a person was conceived and and born into virtual reality. And, yes there is the infinitesimal potential for the possibility, but as humans, we would never allow such a thing to occur. (I hope...) Oh, I don't know, I wouldn't be so categoric..

I mean, sure emotion are an important part of racing but i dunno if they can't be replicated. Maybe not today (or even tomorrow) and maybe not for a game such real racing (or any game at all) but all in all "awarness" and "emotion" are just electric and chemical synapses in human brain.. form this point of view they don't seem so hard to replicate.. Now comes the part where you take happy medicine, and life is pink. We already have those drugs. We already know they can turn people into zombies.

""awarness" and "emotion" are just electric and chemical synapses in human brain.. form this point of view they don't seem so hard to replicate.."

This sounds overly simplistic.

Maybe you can give human a happy pill, but to catch, define by chemistry, or even create awareness? I don't think we are even close to answer. The fact that computer can respond to signal does not mean that it has awareness. Animal has awareness, but what makes it different from human? There are numerous reports of people clinically dead, woken and describing persons they saw conversation they heard in a room while they were dead...

The fact that body can die doesn't prove that awareness died with it. Sounds too religious. all of these you mentioned are a function of the brain and machines will soon be able to replicate them perfectly. But, in my opinion, it probably won't happen, simply because machines won't need awareness or emotions. Most likely they will evolve more on the 'crunch the numbers' side of things and skip all the human 'weaknesses' on their way to dominate the universe ...