Extra credit Virjina Sarkisova

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Thinking is a very unique quality that includes such things as feelings, creativity, personality, freedom, intuition, morality, and so on. Thinking to some extent involves perceiving the environment, processing that information, and acting to make changes. A thinking program must be able to handle inexperienced situations, be able to function effectively with imperfect knowledge, be able to learn from past mistakes, have access to a large amount of common sense knowledge, and be able to predict possible outcomes and prepare for them. “Thinking is a function of man’s immortal soul, God has given an immortal soul to every man and woman but not to any other animal or machine. Hence no animal or machine can think.” (Grafikart reader pg.51). The responses of the machines are not spontaneous but automated and they are incapable of thinking for themselves. They cannot give an advice as would a human being and they are also not capable of feeling emotions. The limitations of the human creations are very evident as man has not been capable of manufacturing a soul. It is the soul that that makes us human beings and not machines. It makes us able of independent thought and action, which these robots are powerless to do. In fact they are helpless and unable if doing anything or feeling anything unless it has been programmed into their systems. They are unable to say anything except for a few sentences recorded into their memories. Also in a time of crisis they are unable to save themselves from destruction.(Olympia,Alicia) Also,  thinking is a product of a brain work , and brain controls all the movements and actions  of our body. The actions and movemnts of the machines are not controlled by the brain,therefore  the machines are unable to think.