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Can Robots Ever Become Life?

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"You can't build sand castles out of sand.

You can't even create something as simple as molecules, how are you gonna make them interact with each other and form a  sand castle?"

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literally the level of stupidity Verbatim has reached


 
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"You can't build sand castles out of sand.

You can't even create something as simple as molecules, how are you gonna make them interact with each other and form a  sand castle?"

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literally the level of stupidity Verbatim has reached
Considering I said nothing like that, I'd say the retarded cunt who doesn't even know English is the stupid one here.

That's you, by the way.
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This is fallacious because you're assuming that "life" hasn't already existed for billions and billions of years. When life began, it was EXTRAORDINARILY simple. We're talking single-cell organisms here.
Correct, and the fact that such a thing was created out of non-living matter backs up my side of the argument, not yours.
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We can't even create something as simple as a single-celled organism. How are we going to make something as complex as a sentient robot?
Time, effort, and technological advancements. Like any other hurdle humanity seems to overcome, really. And I'm not even arguing we should create conscious organisms, just that such a thing is theoretically possible. Nature can do it, so can we.
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If you're going to call my comparisons shit, when they're actually brilliant, you're not allowed to make shit comparisons yourself. This is just stupid. You can't compare Einstein's education with his parents, because his parents didn't have the same education. Duh. That's not even remotely a fair comparison.
I'm not sure everybody's brain is identical, and Einstein excelled in mathematics in such a way that arguably made him different than those around him, regardless of his education. It seems that intelligence is not completely determined by how much effort you put into learning, there seems to be more to it. But actually, let's pretend that specific example doesn't matter, so I'll take a step back and analyze the process as a whole. Would you argue that I'm smarter and more capable than one of my ancestors from billions of years ago? Clearly, so it's absolutely possible to make something smarter than yourself over time. Evolution proves that.


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Because you see no distinction between neurons and mechanical transmitters.
The difference is complexity.


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"You can't build sand castles out of sand.

You can't even create something as simple as molecules, how are you gonna make them interact with each other and form a  sand castle?"

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literally the level of stupidity Verbatim has reached
Considering I said nothing like that, I'd say the retarded cunt who doesn't even know English is the stupid one here.

"the stupid one is the stupid one"
Excellent deduction, Holmes.

Unfortunately for you, you are the stupid one here. I didn't think you were this stupid, truth be told, but judging by the fact that you're hostile and have been for a while, as well as the fact of your threads titled something along the lines of I am superior, or as I'd like to call them "I'm angsty and need to blow off some hot air", you're being restricted intellectually by your mental situation.


 
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Correct, and the fact that such a thing was created out of non-living matter backs up my side of the argument, not yours.
Except it doesn't, because despite those organisms' biological simplicity, we still haven't been able to replicate it after being consciously aware of them for centuries. Not one time. Not even close.
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Nature can do it, so can we.
Yeah. By sexual reproduction.

We don't even understand how THAT works, in terms of how it creates life. We have no idea.

In order to create life outside of sexual reproduction, you have to understand how that process even works first--and the thing is, we probably never will.
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Would you argue that I'm smarter and more capable than one of my ancestors from billions of years ago? Clearly, so it's absolutely possible to make something smarter than yourself over time. Evolution proves that.
Well, "smart" is kind of a dumb word. A smarter person would recognize that you can't bundle everything about intelligence in one little word and use that as a blanket metric for "general" intelligence. In terms of your education, you have a better education than a caveman, yes. In terms of your capacity to learn, your IQ, and the size of your brain? You probably have a caveman beat. Probably.

Thing is, that's not a great comparison, either, because you're moving the goalposts. If you're comparing relative intelligence from generation to generation, where you're adjusting for things like difference in education and average IQ for a given year, what reason do I have to believe that you're "smarter" than a caveman?

The difference is complexity.
So how complex does it have to get for you to say, "Okay, that's a facsimile for life."

In other words, how do we KNOW for CERTAIN that we've finally done it?
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This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
How would we know that the robot actually feels things like love and pain and joy and isn't just secretly plotting a hostile takeover of the world behind a well maintained facade?


 
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It's you, not we.
Are you going to say something intelligible, or are you just here to remind us that you're the dumbest user on the forum again?


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How would we know that the Governor actually feels things like love and pain and joy and isn't just secretly plotting a hostile takeover of the prison behind a well maintained facade?
This applies to humans as well


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It's you, not we.
Are you going to say something intelligible, or are you just here to remind us that you're the dumbest user on the forum again?
How stupid are you? You keep saying "we don't know" but in actuality, the facts are that you don't know. You're never gonna admit something like that because you're arrogant as fuck.

You are worthless to me. I can't gain anything from you anymore. Used to be that you had weird ideas of how things should be, and I listened. You convinced me, and so I started having similar ideas. No you've been exhausted of these ideas, and what remains is utter shit.
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It's you, not we.
Are you going to say something intelligible, or are you just here to remind us that you're the dumbest user on the forum again?
How stupid are you? You keep saying "we don't know" but in actuality, the facts are that you don't know. You're never gonna admit something like that because you're arrogant as fuck. You are worthless to me. I can't gain anything from you anymore.
Second option it is.


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Except it doesn't, because despite those organisms' biological simplicity, we still haven't been able to replicate it after being consciously aware of them for centuries. Not one time. Not even close.
Knowledge of abiogenesis is both a limited and recent addition to humanity's collective understanding of nature, and it isn't exactly a field of research that the government is eager to dump funding into, so you should expect this process to be slow. We haven't had the tools or information necessary to start experimenting with creating simple organisms until recently, and to argue that is can't be done because it hasn't been done isn't wise. You came into this thread and said "No," conclusively, but I've been sticking with "Maybe" while leaning towards "Yes." But it seems your answer is based on things that have yet to be shown as true; you're banking on people not finding things out in the future.
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Yeah. By sexual reproduction.

We don't even understand how THAT works, in terms of how it creates life. We have no idea.
Which is why such things are ongoing areas of study. But you likely don't have to know every single thing about why life exists as it does to replicate the processes that allow for us to classify it as "Life."
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In order to create life outside of sexual reproduction, you have to understand how that process even works first--and the thing is, we probably never will.
Maybe, maybe not.
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Well, "smart" is kind of a dumb word. A smarter person would recognize that you can't bundle everything about intelligence in one little word and use that as a blanket metric for "general" intelligence. In terms of your education, you have a better education than a caveman, yes. In terms of your capacity to learn, your IQ, and the size of your brain? You probably have a caveman beat. Probably.

Thing is, that's not a great comparison, either, because you're moving the goalposts. If you're comparing relative intelligence from generation to generation, where you're adjusting for things like difference in education and average IQ for a given year, what reason do I have to believe that you're "smarter" than a caveman?
Big scales, though. If we were to take a caveman and throw him into a modern society and raise him as we do modern homo sapiens, he might be totally normal and indistinguishable in terms of intelligence. I'm not a neurologist, and I really don't know much about anthropology, so I can't say. However, if we go back further and take a chunk of primordial, organic soup that I formed from, am I smarter? Yes, and things just kept becoming more cognitive and complex from there. Even if "Smart" is an ambiguous word, its level of ambiguity doesn't reach so far that you can't use to to distinguish between my intelligence and that of a hamster.
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So how complex does it have to get for you to say, "Okay, that's a facsimile for life."
I really can't say that I know, but complexity does seem to be a property of life as we know it, would you not agree? Fundamentally, we can reduce everything to we do to physical laws, but it seems you need to have a large, coordinated effort of bits and pieces working to produce our definition of "Life."


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It's you, not we.
Are you going to say something intelligible, or are you just here to remind us that you're the dumbest user on the forum again?
How stupid are you? You keep saying "we don't know" but in actuality, the facts are that you don't know. You're never gonna admit something like that because you're arrogant as fuck. You are worthless to me. I can't gain anything from you anymore.
Second option it is.
It is the second option; it also is the first one. You know that, but you justhave to get in a jab whenever you can.

How about you stop being immature and fuck off or grow up? How old are you again? Answering with above 16 is cause for alarm.


 
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This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
How would we know that the Governor actually feels things like love and pain and joy and isn't just secretly plotting a hostile takeover of the prison behind a well maintained facade?
This applies to humans as well
What if the Russians capture and reprogram the robot to kill us all?


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How would we know that the Governor actually feels things like love and pain and joy and isn't just secretly plotting a hostile takeover of the prison behind a well maintained facade?
This applies to humans as well
What if the Russians capture and reprogram the robot to kill us all?
What do the references mean, Mason?


 
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This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
How would we know that the Governor actually feels things like love and pain and joy and isn't just secretly plotting a hostile takeover of the prison behind a well maintained facade?
This applies to humans as well
What if the Russians capture and reprogram the robot to kill us all?
What do the references mean, Mason?
Okay, what if someone steals the robot for the Israelis who use it to cause a nuclear disaster on American soil that the Russians are blamed for and sink an aircraft carrier in retaliation so we begin to countdown to a state of nuclear war and the only guy who can save us is the young CIA agent who accidentally stole the robot for the Israelis in the first place?


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It's you, not we.
Are you going to say something intelligible, or are you just here to remind us that you're the dumbest user on the forum again?
How stupid are you? You keep saying "we don't know" but in actuality, the facts are that you don't know. You're never gonna admit something like that because you're arrogant as fuck. You are worthless to me. I can't gain anything from you anymore.
Second option it is.
It is the second option; it also is the first one. You know that, but you justhave to get in a jab whenever you can.

How about you stop being immature and fuck off or grow up? How old are you again? Answering with above 16 is cause for alarm.

Pure savagery


 
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It's you, not we.
Are you going to say something intelligible, or are you just here to remind us that you're the dumbest user on the forum again?
How stupid are you? You keep saying "we don't know" but in actuality, the facts are that you don't know. You're never gonna admit something like that because you're arrogant as fuck. You are worthless to me. I can't gain anything from you anymore.
Second option it is.
It is the second option; it also is the first one. You know that, but you justhave to get in a jab whenever you can.

How about you stop being immature and fuck off or grow up? How old are you again? Answering with above 16 is cause for alarm.
Pure savagery
It was actually pretty limp and impotent, as most of his posts tend to be.


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How would we know that the Governor actually feels things like love and pain and joy and isn't just secretly plotting a hostile takeover of the prison behind a well maintained facade?
This applies to humans as well
What if the Russians capture and reprogram the robot to kill us all?
What do the references mean, Mason?
Okay, what if someone steals the robot for the Israelis who use it to cause a nuclear disaster on American soil that the Russians are blamed for and sink an aircraft carrier in retaliation so we begin to countdown to a state of nuclear war and the only guy who can save us is the young CIA agent who accidentally stole the robot for the Israelis in the first place?
What if it did? What if it didn't? What if the whole world would stop spinning?
https://youtu.be/ms2klX-puUU?t=3m5s
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It's you, not we.
Are you going to say something intelligible, or are you just here to remind us that you're the dumbest user on the forum again?
How stupid are you? You keep saying "we don't know" but in actuality, the facts are that you don't know. You're never gonna admit something like that because you're arrogant as fuck. You are worthless to me. I can't gain anything from you anymore.
Second option it is.
It is the second option; it also is the first one. You know that, but you justhave to get in a jab whenever you can.

How about you stop being immature and fuck off or grow up? How old are you again? Answering with above 16 is cause for alarm.
Pure savagery
It was actually pretty limp and impotent, as most of his posts tend to be.
We don't think so. We've established that I was the one who performed acts of pure savagery.


 
 
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Of course

There is nothing special about an organic brain that cannot be replicated by a sufficiently advanced synthetic one.

Emotions, Desires, Thoughts, Fears are all a result of internal and external 'programming', either in the form of your biology (genetics/hormonal levels) or your learning.

If you make a program that can learn new things, you are already on par with most organic life. If you make a program that can rationalise a decision, you've surpassed all non-sentient life. If you make a robot that can do all that and have laser eyes, we have no need for meatbags anymore.

You're just waiting for someone to create your new brother
I already have four, I'd rather have a robotic son
How do neurons communicate? Some sources say through neurotransmitters being sent and picked up between neurons, but then there's the electric-impulses-stuff. Can you clear this up for me?
Yeah, we've been doing this in a lot of detail recently.

So take a dopaminergic neuron for example


You have the presynaptic nerve and the post synaptic nerve, the bit between the two nerve endings is the synaptic gap. When an action potential reaches the presynaptic nerve, this triggers the release of neurotransmitters like Dopamine into the synaptic gap. The dopamine then binds to the receptors on the post-synaptic nerve and if sufficient dopamine are bound to it then this generates a new action potential in the second neuron.

The action potential is the electrical bit and the dopamine in the neurotransmitter. The electrical charge for the action potential comes from the transfer of energy from ionized molecules (iirc) like Sodium Na+ or Potassium K+ which is why deficiency of those two is particularly bad for a person's neurological health.

Hope that makes sense.
So, our post-synaptic neurons have a default setting, like Oxytocin, and the "action potential" stimulates this setting? The neurotransmitter is the binding factor that determines the capability of that neuron. The action potential then is an action or smell. Once we do something or hear something for the first time action potential occurs and a neurotransmitter is selected by one cell to bind with another cell (among a cluster of other cells). When we perform the action, or hear the same sound again the eletrical impulses are sent through those neurons again, and the neurotransmitter's effect happens without the need of any configurations since the setting is already set. Serotonin won't be able to pass through this cell unless the simulation of it forces a new setting to be added.


^that's my understanding of what you said and then some
Er not quite but not wrong

Post-synaptic neurons have receptors on them, that neurotransmitters bind to. A bit like enzymes and their target molecule, lock and key model. The action potential is the electrical impulse, this is generated in response to something i.e sensory stimuli or by neurotransmission. The AP then moves along the neuron to trigger the release of neurotransmitters at the presynaptic nerve.

As for the origin of an action potential, I can't quite remember where it comes from it other than the electrical charge comes from ions and a chemical reaction.
Yeah, I actually found out about the hole you just filled in before posting, but I wasn't bothered to figure out a way to fill it in, so I just left it. My theory didn't make 100% sense, but the updated version kinda does

Thanks for explaining.
No problem, I've been doing neuropsychology for the last few months straight so it's kinda fresh to mind.


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Excuse me, I'm full of dog poison
It's you, not we.
Are you going to say something intelligible, or are you just here to remind us that you're the dumbest user on the forum again?
How stupid are you? You keep saying "we don't know" but in actuality, the facts are that you don't know. You're never gonna admit something like that because you're arrogant as fuck. You are worthless to me. I can't gain anything from you anymore.
Second option it is.
It is the second option; it also is the first one. You know that, but you justhave to get in a jab whenever you can.

How about you stop being immature and fuck off or grow up? How old are you again? Answering with above 16 is cause for alarm.
Pure savagery
It was actually pretty limp and impotent, as most of his posts tend to be.

The savagery continues


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Excuse me, I'm full of dog poison
It's you, not we.
Are you going to say something intelligible, or are you just here to remind us that you're the dumbest user on the forum again?
How stupid are you? You keep saying "we don't know" but in actuality, the facts are that you don't know. You're never gonna admit something like that because you're arrogant as fuck. You are worthless to me. I can't gain anything from you anymore.
Second option it is.
It is the second option; it also is the first one. You know that, but you justhave to get in a jab whenever you can.

How about you stop being immature and fuck off or grow up? How old are you again? Answering with above 16 is cause for alarm.
Pure savagery
It was actually pretty limp and impotent, as most of his posts tend to be.
We don't think so. We've established that I was the one who performed acts of pure savagery.

Return of the savages


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Sure, just less...fleshy, and disgusting. Wire and circuitry in place of nerve and synapse, and all that. Once they can learn and grow on their own, they meet every relevant qualification.

After that we can move on to making organic machinery, and perhaps in time human life and machine life will be indistinguishable. In that case, would we really be human, and would they really be machine, if we were one in the same?


 
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Sure, just less...fleshy, and disgusting. Wire and circuitry in place of nerve and synapse, and all that. Once they can learn and grow on their own, they meet every relevant qualification.

After that we can move on to making organic machinery, and perhaps in time human life and machine life will be indistinguishable. In that case, would we really be human, and would they really be machine, if we were one in the same?
Bro
You know what that means?

Green ending canon. Robot plants.

ROBOT

PLANTS


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the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
Sure, just less...fleshy, and disgusting. Wire and circuitry in place of nerve and synapse, and all that. Once they can learn and grow on their own, they meet every relevant qualification.

After that we can move on to making organic machinery, and perhaps in time human life and machine life will be indistinguishable. In that case, would we really be human, and would they really be machine, if we were one in the same?
Bro
You know what that means?

Green ending canon. Robot plants.

ROBOT

PLANTS

I, for one, welcome our new chlorocybernetic overlords.


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I reckon we somehow find a way to replicate a human mind and load it into a body, though it wouldnt be new life per say, but the mind of the human before it.


That would probably cause a larger shitstorm.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
——Carmen
If you make a program that can learn new things, you are already on par with most organic life. If you make a program that can rationalise a decision, you've surpassed all non-sentient life. If you make a robot that can do all that and have laser eyes, we have no need for meatbags anymore.
So why, if it was even possible, do people want this to happen? Create a race of thinking, sentient machines with survival instinct, who can outperform humans physically and intellectually, and set them loose into the world? Might as well just blow up everything.


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I don't know for certain, but I personally like to think it's possible. If something achieves the same amount of neurological complexity as a living organism... Why does it matter what it's made of? Like others have said, you'd say "Well, they're just machines," but so are humans, we're just made of different things than what we'd call a "Robot."

But the problem with this concept is that you'd never actually be able to prove the sentience of a non-biological organism, so I feel like there'd always be some people who doubted if they were conscious. But yeah, It think it may be an interesting possibility.

I'm not talking about metal versus flesh

I'm talking about
Is robot "life" just following algorithms or is there something inherently there?