AW: [aiethics] What are humans made of?

[Ing. Pedro E. Colla]

Alicebot AI Ethics Committee - http://www.alicebot.org


>PS:  The difference between a human and an animal is its ability to =
choose.
>That is, a human's ability to choose.
>THAT is the undebatable truth, unless any of you are so Kantian that =
you
>do not believe in truth (which is a whole other level of ridiculousness
*giggle*).

Nature give us plenty of examples of animals making choices of all =
sorts;
many species choose not to eat while their off-springs needs to be =
protected
from predators, and they actually show some fairly elaborated tactical
evaluation skills on that based on the inflow of data to their senses.

Whether they derive such behaviour from pure hormonal inflows or from
a nice and neat conceptual elaboration of a pure hormonal inflow is
certainly something that contributes to place one species higher than
other, but that's about it.

Day to day observation gives us human behaviours that models quite good
after Pavlov's behaviours; just visit some Corporate environment.

The only undebatable truth is that there is no absolute truth; what we =
live
with is more like a relative truth based in the (somewhat arbitrary)
reference system we use to meassure it. This is what common people seems
to follow and it doesn't mean to subscribe to Kant's arguments.

It's bad for our self-esteem a direct comparation with a worm, so we
develop a neurotic behaviour to protect ourselves thru denial.

Ing. Pedro E. Colla
Adrogue-BA
Argentina