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A Reflection on Implementing a Conscious Robot

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Mind — the holistic perception of the senses — a metaphysical phenomenon 


There exist diverse substantive processes that allow one to be born with an innate mechanism enabling learning and adaptation to the environment, that is, the ability to act in purpose-directed ways.

Whatever form of an initial command system may be required for the human, we can explain it as complex physical processes producing that system.

(A robot — moves by its internal system)


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Rational capacities: plans and acts on the basis of belief, desire, and beliefs about how one will satisfy those desires.


Physical — purpose-directedness, desire (behavioral), sensation, traits

Human — belief     , desire (emotional), feeling, consciousness 


* A blind person's differing feeling about 'red' for the same fact is

 closer to experiential (trait-based) than uniquely human.


* An identical expected result is rational, but by itself carries a limit. To be truly human, one must be able to anticipate unpredictable results that reflect the individual situation (traits) of the cognizing subject.


* If the human is beautiful because they are not complete, then 'complete' here would mean 'not machine-like.' 'Machine-like' here, apart from performance, speed, or accuracy, means that the result for a given condition (environment) is predictable. Humans strive to live regularly and rationally, but from an ontological value-judgment standpoint we express a desire to escape the rule of determinism. Is this not an infantile human instinct—and does it not ironically prove that we are not actually such beings? 


Looking at the development of life from a development-oriented perspective,

we can roughly divide the reasons humans build robots into two. Either to build something that surpasses human limits, or, recognizing the limits of the robot and assuming human superiority, to dismiss it as a mere functional supplement—an arrogant psychology. If it is the latter, we must not forget that once built, the situation may become uncontrollable. And if so, did the maker who created humans not feel the same? If so, which of the two was it?

From an evolutionary perspective,

it would be genetic variation or development through self-reproduction. An uncontrollable(?) robot would be like a child aged 7 to 13.

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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