Artifical Minds

--> In this short story Artificial Minds it discusses the possibility of one day programming computers or robots to have artificial minds such as humans. Although we are not close yet, the possibility of computers having artificial minds can become true one day. Human are known for their freedom, creativity, having a soul, moral significance, and being responsible. Computers today can do things us humans can do and are able to do tasks even better such as the computer Deep Blue who defeated Kasparov in a game of Chess. For the people who lose feeling due to brain damage, pain is a very important part of the human body because signals send from the body to the brain that there is stress on the body. Say if we could replace the missing signals in the brain into data that could alert the body there is pain, that part of the brain would be functioning again but artificial now. Although it is one part of the brain it is still a part, and if we could figure out a way to “artificialize” every component of the brain neuron for neuron, thus the artificial brain will be complete. Just because a computer is programmed to do what it is told, doesn’t mean it cannot be creative like a human. In the example of Deep Blue winning in a game of chess against a human, Deep Blue did what it was programmed to do which was to play chess, but in a game of chess in order to win it takes creativity proving that both computers can do what they are programmed but yet still be creativity. Although we are miles away from creating the first artificial brain, reading this short story has shown that one-day, the possibility of making an artificial brain can become true.