Can we program AI to feel like human beings?
Question from the Internet:
“I guess the human brain works pretty much like motherboard circuits; it’s just that programmers don’t teach AI social awareness, morality, and shame. That’s why AI doesn’t fully resemble human thinking. Do you agree or disagree?”
I do not know. There is still much we do not know about the brain. But that is not the reason why programmers cannot program AI to exist and behave like a human being.
For a computer, the “brain” is everything. A computer, like AI, is all about calculations, digesting and sorting, analyzing and combining data in order to come up with conclusions.
The “core” of a human being is one’s desires, emotions, and feelings. We are primarily sentient and emotional beings. Our brain and intellectual faculties are there only to record, sort, analyze, and make sense of our emotions and to prepare us for new sensory and emotional inputs and how to react to them.
Our brain cannot function without our emotions. Our constant attempts to imagine ourselves as primarily intellectual beings, trying to oppress or discard our emotions, are dehumanizing and destructive.
Our actual and all-encompassing “matter,” the only engine that actually drives us, is a very deep, primordial desire to exist and receive constant and ever-growing fulfillment for ourselves. Without this “primordial desire” at our core, we do not feel; we do not exist.
This “primordial desire” clothes into many different forms of “sub-desires” we are conscious about and chase throughout our lives. But the deepest and more pressing desire — which is awakening now in more and more people — is related to the very core of our existence, asking: Who are we? Why are we born? What is our purpose? What makes us tick? What reality do we live in? How can we find our most optimal place in this reality? How can we find “true love and endless happiness” that seem to be our most fulfilling pleasures?
AI and computers cannot be programmed to desire such answers and to feel when they receive an answer.
Instead of worshipping or fearing AI, we should focus more on our own inner setup, our own desires, and the deepest questions that arise from our desires. Only then can we learn and fulfill our existence as “Human Beings.”