Originally posted by Amaranth Rose:
Should we make Artificial Intelligences that (a) understand human emotions, or (b) simulate human emotions in their programming? Would it be wise to endow a machine with intelligence to the point of consciousness and not build in some sort of conscience, some sense of right and wrong? How could that be simulated in an AI?
The brain is ultimately also a machine. But we are mortal, so we should certainly build machines with the same capability as the human brain so that we can replace our mortal brains by these (practically) immortal machines. Ideally you want to have a machine that can download your brain content (i.e. the exact way all your neurons are connected to each other).
A person who has uploaded himself from his body to a machine will have a lot of freedom. He doesn't need a body to travel anymore. You can imagine that in the far future people will travel vast distances in outer space by sending their brain configuration information over radio from one solar system to another.
