Journal 10

When watching the Star Trek episode is was interesting to see the trial held to decide whether the robot should have the same rights as the humans based on whether or not the robot contained human qualities. Artificial intelligence is a topic that can be widely discussed. Can thought go on without a body? Can you actually recreate human feelings and thoughts? I don't believe you can. I believe that you can create smart computers that can operate different complex functions, but you can't create feelings in a machine. In order for a machine to process something that a human may decide based on feeling, the computer would have to analyze the data, measure the different probabilities and make a decision based on logic and reason that has been installed in them. They are unable to reflect, but rather they have to reason everything. Just as in the episode of Star Trek, when the group was playing poker, the robot had to analyze the information and was thrown off by the poker face because he played the odds based on reasoning rather than the ability to lie or fool the other players.