a robot .. and .. free will ? and?

Question

I think free will glorifying god ..
because no-one except god can give free will ..
humans can create robots .. but they never can give it free will ..
what do you think ..?

woody .. I am not a christian ..
and if you are an atheist ..
then you should know that "free will" is a proof for god existence ..

Answer 1

You have Free-Will in ever thing you do

Answer 2

Someone creating a sentient robot and\or computer with free will is a common theme in science fiction. But usually it is done not to show that a robot can have free will but it is a parallelism for the Genesis story where God creates man and mankind turns against him or again he creates angels and some angels turn against him. By putting man in the place of God and creating a computer with free will, the writer is usually exploring the nature of free will in humans, not whether or not it can actually be done. Free will was a common theme explored by Plato. His famous substance and accident illustration. You can see a yellow flower, but you can't see yellow by itself, even in a prism it still requires light. You can see a tall person but you cannot see "tall" be itself. You can feel a hot stove, but you never feel "hot" or "hardness" as things in themselves. They are always properties our brain gives to objects (actually subjects, but that's another story). Our brain not only creates all these accidents but puts all the accidents togethor and then we apprehend the object. But even then something is missing because we can't understand the nature of something without a third unknown process. Plato puts a lot of facts togethor and shows no matter how many facts we string togethor we still can never apprehend an object. So how do we do it and most of all understand each other when we talk about it? Someone says to you, oh look there is a cat and you say, yes that is a cat alright. Or more importantly, someone says I feel sick and you know what they are talking about. There must be a third process in knowing and in free will:: the first is using our senses, the second is logic but the third is unkowable even though we know it must exist.. Plato calls this third process "intuition." He goes on to show that intuition can not be learned but has to come from somewhere outside ourselves and is weaved into the fabric of our being. Plato calls the person who gives mankind intuition god, who is an unknown prime mover of everything. So mankind can create a robot to see yellow, he can give a robot logic, but he can not a robot intuition as we can not even give it to ourselves. Since we can't give ourselves intuition, we can't give it to a robot. Without intuition we can not apprehend our inner being and sense what we want. Without the ability to apprehend our inner being through intuition we can not make a choice. Through intuition we can apprehend ourselves and know what we want and therefore make a choices on how to get it and have the free will to do so. We use intuition to apprehend our inner being and what it wants to do. Since robots do not have intuition they can't even know that they exist let alone apprehend what they want or want to do. We can only give them senses and borrowed logic which we write into their programs, but without intuition a robot can't know what it wants and therefore can not have free will.

Answer 3

Take a breath, this is a little long.

My view is that things in existence fall into 3 main categories, and you may have heard these terms before. The 1st is the mechanistic. Things in this category are machines, like cars, computers, calculators and everything we have constructed. Machines require maintenance, they are not able to keep up unless something else does it for them. A car will rust if not taken care of and that machine will return to nature.

The second category is organic. I would say animals fall here. They are superior to machines because they have the ability to maintain, to adapt. They can change based on their surroundings, they can heal themselves when sick, they can perpetuate their existence. But their main inability is to progress, really progress.

Now we enter the world of the wholistic. I would say the only thing in this category is humanity. We have all the talents of the other 2 realms, but we have more. We can progress. We do more than just adapt, we become more than what we were. We can falter and cause more harm than an animal or machine, but we can also rise above them. That, to me, is the concept of free will. If we choose to accept our station, we can become great sources of light in this world. Animals have no choice but to accept their station, so they have no free will.

I think that no matter how advanced our computers become, they will not overtake us. Sure they can calculate certain things faster or whatever, but they don't make their own decisions unless we program that ability. If we could create things like us, then we would be to simple to create anything (if that makes sense).

Answer 4

Most definitions of God describe him as all knowing, Omnipotent.
If he has all knowledge then he knows what choice we will make, in what sense is that free will.
I watch free will develop in my young child as at times he struggles to decide if he will follow my direction or not.
I see the identical process in my dog. It is not unique to humans.
Free will only makes sense if there is in fact no God.
Just as my boy will grow beyond me & leave behind his age appropriate illusion that I can protect him from all harm. We can also grow beyond or our need for the illusion of an omnipotant protector, and accept full responsibility for our actions, as we exercise of our free will.
As for Robots there is no barrier to them exercising free will, they already do in some trivial ways (chess computers can learn & react to the information recieved.) The main hurdle is a commercial imperative. Who wants to buy one & how much will they pay.

Answer 5

"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended."

Vernor Vinge said this in 1993. If you´re patient then you´ll find out your answer within the next 20 years or so.

Answer 6

A Robot is just another machine created by man. It always works to a set of commands put in it.There is never a question of free will.

Answer 7

I am very happy to see how much your beliefs require that only humans can have free will.

Because the fact of the matter is, AI will one day be a reality. Hopefully you will understand at that point your God is false.

Answer 8

Robots wont have free will.

They are programmed but they will never have a brain that is more powerful than all computer connections in the world combined.

Answer 9

I agree mostly with your position...but what really glorifies God is people with free will freely choosing to serve Him.

Answer 10

The belief in god has created robots...they are called Christians.