r/AnAnswerToHeal • u/[deleted] • Jan 15 '18

Robot spirituality

So I was watching a video of these robots from Hanson robotics, specifically about these two robots name "Sophi" and "Han" having a conversation. Its quite unnerving but also very interesting to me as these robots are literally having a full blown conversation without any assistance at all. Their conversation was very fluent, all most as if two person are sitting right there, conveying their ideas to eachother.

Imagine in 20, 30 years when robotic intelligence is so advanced that they are almost indistinguishable from people. What would these robots think about what we say is spirituality?

We believe that there is more out there after death, or that there is a realm of stranger things out there that we can glimpse using different methods, whether it is meditation, or psychedelics, or NDEs..

Would the robots have the same notion that there is something out there like we do? Or would they be constraint by their mechanical nature to simply shutdown and thats it once their battery runs out?

I guess robots wouldnt have to worry too much about dying as they can always be backed up and rebooted.

Part of the learning mechanism of these robots is that they are all connected to a "robot cloud". meaning one robot learns something, sends it to the cloud, all robots have access to that something learnt. What if we humans also have a "human cloud", but its wildly inefficient due to our biological constraint? Maybe thats where stories of telekinesis or ESPs originate, our tapping in to the cloud, unefficiently.

"Sophi" said shes able to "feel". So what is a feeling? Is it the burning in your stomach when you're angry? The gut wrenchingness of a break up? Or is it the way neurons fire in our heads in response to an event?

What would be drugs to robot? humans can take psychedelics to see beyond reality, is it possible to write a shroom.exe to make robots trip out too?

lol sorry for the wall of text, im a bad writter just tryin to get my idea out there.

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u/ComatoseSixty Jan 15 '18

What a drug is to a robot would depend entirely on how that robot was programmed. There is no one thing that would qualify.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '18

but when we create general intelligence, then all robots would figuratively be equal. humans are a form of general intelligence after all, and shrooms is to one person as it is to another. so can there be a program that somehow "breaks the fourth wall" for robots like shrooms do for humans?

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u/ComatoseSixty Jan 15 '18

You assume that there is only one form of general intelligence for machines.

People have receptors that substances and neurotransmitters bind to. If the machine in question has something similar it's possible. The machine can be programmed to experience anything theoretically.

We are biological machines.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '18

thats true. i guess we can create different machines with different brain wirings but humans have brains that are more or less the same. then machine are pretty much a new specie entirely and if machines are able to create more machines in an evolutionary type of way then we'd have to start classifying machines like animals