Originally Posted by K0HTA

Robots huh... Well I'll put it like this, if you say "not the robot has no soul, but its self aware." then I would say that it doesn't matter either way. If you want to set it free to live its life then thats fine, as long as its not problematic. If you want to rule over it like a tyrant then sure why not, it doesn't have a "soul" so that means its just a piece of property with a collection of memories.

P.S. What I define as a soul is a component that gives an organism a higher meaning in life then just survival, an non-material thing that exist beyond death.

Originally Posted by AlphaN00b

now i'm wondering how the fuck can robots feel ?
there is alot of fucking words that make you feel something
what people say,how they say it and when they say it
i cant mind talking with a robot having feelings
the ability of learning is completely possible and exist but to learn being human is something else
do you think a robot will be as smart as you ?
no it cant be
do you think a robot will be stand alone and go against humanity?
completely impossible
well if there is something can prove that making robots with feelings and stuff just like humans show it to me.
you wont find anything probably :P

Originally Posted by Zelda

Let's not get into a discussion as to whether it will ever be possible technologically. Technology is moving so fast that I can't really see anybody here being able to claim they know where we are at with it right now. Just looking around me (in school's physic's department's small library right now) I can see a 491 page book on "computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought" called 'Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies' with nine pages of references, most of which I have never heard of. It was published in more than a decade ago and only covers a decade and a half of research. Imagine how much further we have got, and how much faster we are going with our research today. Although we shouldn't shy away from topics because they are difficult, we should probably wait until at least one person knows what they are talking about first.

TL;DR: In this thread keep to ethics, not science.

Originally Posted by Seth93z

Eventually human tech will be able to do this. How? I don't know, i'm not some sort of grade A mad scientist. Although if I would have to take a guess it would be some sort of premade personality, like a humans. That combined with the ability to learn a process information would likely make a robot almost indestinguisable against a human. Or atleast I think so.