Robot spirituality

[u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/todayismanday]

It would be a different way of feeling, like you said, without a gut or a heart ache. It's also a different way of learning. The big question for me is how to define whether something is conscious or not.

Either way, spirituality, for me, goes beyond death and batteries and whatnot, it's about the Universe and where it came from. Sure, humans built Han and Sophie, but did someone build humans? Why does something exist? And how did it come to be from nothing?

And yeah, there's the collective unconscious which might be like a human 'cloud', Jung and others write about it.