Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Cogito ergo sum


Can QT-1 Say ,"Cogito Ergo Sum?"

QT-1 is a robot designed to handle a space station in the absence of "Humans." When he is assembled by Powell and Donovan, he observes them. After hearing their explanation of how he came to be, he states this is impossible because he used reasoning to deduce that he was a superior being. Never needing to rest or eat, he could work for ever. Since he had reasoned that he was superior, he somehow reasoned that inferior being could not have created a superior one. So he didn't actually think, but used logi to deduce these things. If he could actually think, he could create ideas. Using logic to justify ideas and thinking of new ideas are completely different. Well you may think that then how did he think that his master was the power supply. My Answer to that would be that he knew of its existence because where else would he get his power or what else was he built to take care of. Since he had knowledge of this before hand it is not thinking but logic. How a human thinks is through sending commands through synapses. How does the robot think is what we have no idea. How can we truly determine whether or not it can think if we don not know how it thinks? Witht he information provided to us, all we know is that it can use logic to solve problems but cannot create solutions. For example, since there was no proof of earth existing, he did not believe it did. This clearly shows that it cannot improvise either. Meaning that it cannot use logic to combine ideas but only compare. Due to this evidence i conclude that QT-1 cannot think but only compute ideas. He will never be able to think unless he can learn to create new ideas.

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