The basic storyline of A.I. is that a group of scientists create a little Mecca (mechanical) boy who is supposedly supposed to “have a mind”. The story then develops as, human parents adopt the Mecca. The Mecca then does begin to feel emotions, like love and hate, and David (the Mecca) also begins to chase after dreams. All of this does raise the good point “can minds be created?”

Many people, one of which John Locke, believe that in every person there is a mind (not the brain). The mind, also called the spirit, is supposedly a non-physical substance, which somehow connects with the physical brain. The mind is said to contain the identity of a person, i.e. personality, thoughts etc., but how can it be possible to create a mind? I guess you just program something to think, learn, and feel emotions and then it should be set, wrong. If the mind is a non-phys

This whole idea is called Strong A.I., which states that the human mind is only a well-programmed computer that runs on the right software, which means that A.I. is possible. John Searles attempts to prove Strong A.I. correct with his “Chinese Room” theory. The Chinese room theory starts to explain that the brain actually creates the mind, according to Searles, "the computer is not merely a tool in the study of the mind, rather the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have other cognitive states."

“If it is justifiable to assume that other human beings feel pain as we do, is there any reason why a similar inference should not be justifiable in the case of other animals?”-Peter Singer.

Another good philosophical point A.I. brings up is speciesism, Peter Singer. Speciesism is a belief that we humans discriminate members of other species, like simple animals. In A.I. they use Davi

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