WEEK 6 - human and computer

computers these days are very advance and some of them can even be able to adapt situation and try to act upon the situations. example in video games or games like chess, computer react on how their opponents play. most of reactions are because they were programmed to do that way. some of the advance program can even detected emotions and even to the point of feelings such as artificial hands with artificial nerve ends that receive electrical signal. in a way we can say computer are pushing the line between human and machines. Just like them, we are also programmed by our society. since we were young, our society has been programming our behaviors and we are programmed to react  in certain ways. for example - you are programmed not to laugh loudly in time of death or during funeral. the different between their programs and our program is that our programs has sense of individuality, sense of understanding and sense of evolution. if there are 5000 advance computers using same program and produced by same factory they will all be identical but in humans even twins who came from same mother are not the same even if they were programmed by same society. their individuality will set them apart. example - the twins can grew up in a football family and yet one of them can become a basketball fan, just because their individual preferences are different. Also sense of evolution set us apart from computers. say if we programmed robot army  to kill Klingons ( i will use them as a race, i don't want to use actual ethics ) they will keep doing till all Klingons are gone. if we teach that to human army, some of us will question why must we? some of us might want to make peace with them, some of us will question the program and try to walk away from doing the wrong thing. that is why we are able to abolish slavery, able to have civil rights moments. human can evolve and can able to see what is right and wrong. the biggest different between us and computer is that we have ability to ask why?. basically we have understanding and they don't. if you program a computer not to laugh loudly at a funeral, it will not laugh loudly but it will never understand why. if you teach a child not to laugh loudly at a funeral, he will probably ask why? and you can explain that it is disrespectful to the family in mourning and it might make them feel more hurt and they child will fully understand. yes computer are wonderful and very advance but they will never have what we have, which is the understanding of the programs. they and us both follow our programs and yet we understand our program because we are able to ask why?