AW: [aiethics] What are humans made of?

[Christian DroЯmann]

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


Chris wrote:

> One thing I wonder about this group that would speak a lot, at
> least to me,
> about where you're coming from in your opinions on AI Ethics.

In my case it's personal opinion, partially based on what I hear while
studying philosophy, especially in lectures about ethics and its
history...In fact I'm taking part in a seminar called "Replaceability of
man? About Humans, AI and robots..." which I find higly interesting...

> I'd like to hear some opinions in this informal poll:
>
> A) A human is no more than a collection of matter and energy occupying =
a
> certain space and that humanness itself is theoretically =
understandable by
> humans.

I agree to that...a human being is basically a bunch of atoms and =
molecules
of various kinds that form things we call "cells" leading to an effect =
we
call "life"...a human is a mammal like all the other species on this
planet...I don't think of man as "the crown of evolution"...technically =
we
are just a by-product of the ape-development :-)
Anything that makes us "human" must therefore be a
biological/chemical/physical process we are yet to discover...

> B) There's something else to a human that we can't ever explain
> or measure.

I don't think so...it may take some more time before the last secrets of
humanity have been deciphered, but after all not too long ago humans =
also
believed that the world was a disc and the center of the universe :-)
Another question is if the SHOULD explain everything...
If for example I could get a scientific proof that my girlfriend loves =
me,
it would take a great deal of fun out of our relationship...because not
technically knowing, but at the same time knowing in a sense =
unexplainable
to me that she loves me is what a relationship of love is all about :-)

Christian