What are the differances between us and machines? Where most AI's if they would "break" would result in a complete mess because of the steady base it is built upon, a human when it "breaks" mentally it can go any which way but all of them are things that A, He can develop and learn from. B, He can be broken down and changed drastically from or C, He can completely push away, ignore and seal away with the rest of the memories.
All of these are based on the human need for self preservation. Does that mean that the difference between us and machines are the "self"?
But then what is the "self" I touched on this subject many times before. The essential idea I've come too are twofold.
1, The self is the amount of experience and memories accumulated to this exact point in time.
2. The self is a mirror of everything around you.
The difference of the two are simply the point of view. In one we assume "we" amount experience, "we" accumelate memories. Which is a part of the solution.
The second doesn't need us. It creates us from everything around us.
Both of these are flawed without each other. 1, needs 2 to recieve input. 2 needs 1 to act on the input it gives, or it bares no significance.
Biologically our basis is to act upon input. It's how we adapt, how we learn and how we evolve. That is if you go by the Darwinistic world view of evolution. If not, It's not hard to argue that even if evolution is not a part of this then we still adhere to a biological basis of input - review and action.
The difference in how we work in comparison to machines seem to be how we break mainly. Like I mentioned above.
You can easily draw comparisons like: Machines and Humans both needs power. True, but it's significant to think about HOW these systems work on a lower conceptual level. Humans recieve energy more or less in tandem with nature. We translate sunlight, food, etc.
In some ways humans are almost badly programmed machines. We have high level understanding of "Oh I'm feeling sick" but we don't know why. While a machine could likely by todays standard always track what is wrong.
It could be in this area, the mist of meta-knowledge created by very high level interpretations of the mind and it's memories and experiences that the "self" is actually created.
And as long as machines don't share the same neural mess which both makes humans hard to break completely (except on the biological level) but rather logical machines without fuzzy error handling that sometimes even defy logic I think it becomes clear.
How machines act is not a result of their own memories or experiences at the moment and so, high level fuzzy interpretations are not really possible, not in the conventional human sense if we don't change something fundemental in how machines work.
-Mireneye
