2007-09-08 19:21:26 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It depends on your definitions of android and human.
If by android you mean a construct of metal and electronics and by human you mean an entity made of flesh, then no. It would take divine intervention to convert metal to flesh.
If by android you mean any human construct that its supposedly conscious, and by human you refer to consciousness, then yes it may be. Much depends on the complexity of the hardware; it may have only an animal consciousness. After certain complexity, it may become something similar to human.
Of course, this complexity is only the first step. There are other things that make us human. What they are is a matter of debate. However, I believe there is a valid listing of those things, and a way to incorporate them into a machine. It is a matter of time the humanity can figure how to do this.
2007-09-08 22:48:14 · answer #1 · answered by epistemology 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the author PK Dick - no. Because androids lack the one characteristic that defines humanity - empathy. That is the basis of his book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which was loosely made into the movie Bladerunner. The Voight Kampf test detects the lack of empathy in androids (or replicants as they are called in the movie) and gives them away. Pax-C
2007-09-08 19:27:10 · answer #2 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I suppose if it reaches a high level of self-awareness. If it can mimic the synape responses of the human brain, to react and learn how to 'feel', think, dream and other indicators of consciousness....then maybe they will become 'human.' We're a long way off now.
2007-09-08 20:54:47 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there is something that humans have that nothing else has.
Now I could call it "love" or "empathy" or anything that goes well on a card but it is something else, it is a spark a special something that only humans have that nothing else can have.
I do not think it is something we can wrap our headsa around but it is there.....
2007-09-08 19:39:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, according to the movie Bicentenial Man, I suppose your answer is yes, but I don't know how. That was a fictional piece anyway.
2007-09-08 19:30:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes all it needs is fake skin and hairs, like android have passed as famous people throughout history.
2007-09-09 02:43:33 · answer #6 · answered by tony 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a movie in the 90's about that, what's the name??? Umm..... Making Mr. Right I think. It had Johm Malkovich in it.TO answer your ?? I think not.
It's s funny movie, old school though.
2007-09-08 19:25:47 · answer #7 · answered by beanhead1972((14HIM)) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah...In the Robin Williams movie;)
2007-09-08 19:37:27 · answer #8 · answered by Beauty isn't everything... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think someone needs to invent andriods first and then we will worry about it.
2007-09-08 19:29:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋