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There is a recurring theme in science fiction in which a robot of advanced design, centuries ahead of where we are now, is so good that it desires to become human and I have seen at least two films with this theme in recent years, one was last night, "AI Artificial Intelligence" made in 2001 and featuring a little boy robot that spends the film looking for the blue fairy so that, just like Pinnochio, she could make him human.
We have to overlook the desire he has as being emotion based and also the tears in his eyes as being emotion based - although I admit the final scenes induced a tear in my eyes too - in order to maintain the idea, that he is a robot, an unfeeling robot.
Data, in Star Trek, also is meant to exhibit this apparent puzzle as, to some mirror extent, was Spock, a human without emotion.
A woman in Daventry, UK, in, I think it must have been, the early 1970s, had an encounter with a UFO whilst out driving. She was taken aboard the UFO and there had some interaction with the beings we generally call "aliens" despite the fact that the 'aliens' are really more entitled to Earth than humans are, having looked after it better and having been around a lot longer and having played such a significant role in it's upkeep and so on - 'alien' is really the wrong word but it's the one we all know so I'll stick with it, alien it is then.
One of the things that bothered her was the big thing that just stood off to one side just looking, staring at her. She asked the alien what it was and the alien replied to this middle aged british female "Don't worry, it's just a non-thinking intelligence".
Now, that choice of words alone, to me, says a whole load, "non-thinking intelligence" about this thing which was like some kind of dog, an animal of some kind but upright and like a humanoid too.
In other words, it was what we call a robot.
The alien clearly looked upon it like we would a machine but the woman regarded it as a being of some kind.
Now I don't need that story to assure people that robots will never have emotions other than simulated emotions because I already understand what it is about humans that have emotions and it is not the body at all, not the body and not the mind. Emotions belong to another aspect of humans that machines and robots and cyborgs and all else of that nature can never have.
Man, all humans, is essentially, that is basically he is, a spiritual being. Each one of us IS a spirit. None of us HAVE a spirit. We ARE spirits.
We are fooled into thinking we are the body and the mind because what we really are, spirit, fits so very neatly into the body and into the mind that we assume and are usually totally convinced that we are the body itself. This is a total mistake and a self-imposed huge handicap because it completely destroys a far more appropriate outlook on life and what it means and what our purpose is.
That is actually why we sleep and dream. The body and the brain have no need for sleep and dreams.
So to get a robot to have emotions which are a spiritual aspect and not a physical aspect, would mean being able to grab someone's spirit and force it into the robot. It can't and never can be done.
In any case why bother?
Test tube baby technology works to capture a spirit in the same way that more normal conception works to capture a spirit and cloning can probably do so similarly but this is an option with cloning so that a clone could be a human but could also be a robot or zombie.
But if cloning doesn't induce a spirit to inhabit it then all you will have is an empty human body with a very rudimentary mind and it will be scary to the unaware because it will emulate and seem to be human but will just be a kind of automaton - a robot or cyborg or zombie depending on how you view the semantics.
But the idea that you can have a robot (clone, cyborg, zombie) that sheds emotionally motivated tears because it desires and wishes with all it's heart to be a human is just silly.
By the way, MIBs, men in black, from what I've read it is clear these are technologically zombies. They are or were human but 'died' and their bodies were kept in suspended animation. What then happens when you see MIBs is that the aliens inhabit them for a short time to 'pass' as human in order to make a brief interaction with humans at the conscious level and physical level.
You may have noticed that often these reports give indications of everything being out of date by several decades - the car, clothing and speech mannerisms for instance all belonging to, say, the 1930s. That's why. The aliens will have seized an opportunity perhaps fifty years ago to snatch a 'package' and store it. I do not think that they deliberately kill people to keep their bodies but there may well be opportunities when the people concerned are going to die suddenly shortly anyway and they simply step in and borrow everything. That's my own personal theory of the MIBs and for that matter many of the black helicopters seem to be something similar - a temporary vechicle posed to resemble familiar earth objects but in reality a part of alien technology.
The MIBs, zombies, robots 'with feelings' supposedly, cyborgs and any other variation on this theme can never have emotion other than as a totally simulated act. The MIBs are very temporary convenience so the idea doesn't even bear consideration in their case - does a man in a diving suit experience emotion? Technically, yes, of course but the question is blind to the actuality of what a man in a diving suit is doing when he is in a diving suit, he won't be in it for long, it is a temporary convenience and aliens using, inhabiting, human bodies as MIB is pretty much the same thing so far as I can tell.
By the way, there is a common belief that the little grays are cloned and are not real beings. I will just point out that several abductees report incidents which imply the opposite so that while they may be clones they DO have feelings. One such report is of one gray holding the ear rings of the abductee up to the side of his head and showing off to another gray. Now that is humour and humour is emotion and they would not do such a thing if they were machines. Another incident had a gray trying on the high heels (shoes) of an abductee, again this was humour, feelings, emotion. So to brand the grays as being emotionless and to deny them the right to be seen as sentient beings just because we are s*** scared of them is immature, wrong and terrible.
By all means, shed a tear as I did, when you watch a film about a lovely looking little boy playing the part of a robot who sheds tears and spends his life trying to become a real little boy, but don't for a moment think that this idea is plausible.
That is not to say that without such nit-picking the film wasn't full of real meaning, it certainly was in my view and it doesn't much matter about this inaccuracy anyway. But in trying to understand what is possible and what is not it is important to realise that being able to make a very sophisticated robot and then cause a spirit to inhabit it is not possible - and, in any case, what would be the point? Each spirit is the individual - you cannot clone a spirit. The idea that you can replace a loved human (or pet - now what was that film called, Repet?) with an identical personality based on something like DNA manipulation, no, that idea is based on the totally false premise that the personality and character of a person are all tucked up and packaged inside the physicality and they simply are not.
If you read how Lobsang Rampa transferred from one body to another (look up transmigration of souls) you will note that it took other lamas in the astral world to partake in the technical aspects of the operation. Even taking into account all the forefront of technology advances that western man now has including things like remote viewing and other psychic ability, he is still not even in his infancy when it comes to the astral world so to be able to perform the equivalent of a surgical operation there? No way. If western thinking style man ever gets to be able to be able to perform such amazing, miraculous, operations, he will have changed so much along the way that he surely will have the wisdom not to do it unless, just like the Tibetans, it is deemed to be rightful project for the betterment of mankind. For that to happen would require a consciousness shift in my opinion and long before we get there we will see a huge political and military shift too.
I may seem to have digressed but not really. Spritual reality doesn't have to be something that only the religions claim to know about - in fact when you educate yourself about real spirituality then the religions can be seen for what they are and not having a clue about the Spiritual Reality is one of their most obvious characteristics. The topic of this article is spiritual. The question or puzzle of emotion is resolved when you realize that it is a spiritual phenomenon not a physical or mental one hence the robot boy struggling to become a real boy is actually a spiritual issue and the film is a spiritually based one. Compare that with what happens if you frequent some religious establishment or hang around with religious people. What do you get there that is anything close to giving you anything approaching a spiritual education? Nil. Thus I haven't digressed at all.
What I have written about in this artilce should really be childs play. Basic spirituality should be a school topic but it isn't because the religions and the religious got there first and 'headed us off at the pass and surrounded us'. So we have to undo that damage and educate ourselves. There is no need for us to be ignorant about this kind of topic at all and the reason we are is largely due to the religions and our own fear and in large part that fear is a product of the religions anyway.
So while it may be sad to think that a cute little robot boy can never possibly become human it must also be understood that he will never have those feelings that were heavily implied by his wishes, his mission, his tears, his yearning for love - all anthropomorphic, all human emotion 'played' by the excellent young actor, to induce our sympathy and our tears. It works despite knowing the simple facts. But without that anthropomorphing it wouldn't work at all and we would simply see a zombie like human-looking robot. That's why the non-thinking intelligence was non-thinking, it was a robot.
So no more crying over robots okay!
There is a related question: Consciousness, what is it? The answer is the same. As with emotion, consciousness is not a physical phenomenon but is solely a spiritual one. In fact science has wasted at least a century obstructing this simple basic realization. We, as individuals, need to overtake them. Do not believe me because I say so but believe me because you have examined the evidence for yourself and you have come to the same conclusion, after all, it's the evidence that actually makes the reality pretty obvious, though, admittedly, it can take decades to grasp such simplicity.
Science needs to grow up or mature if you prefer but also, it is being kept in check to keep us all in a state of profound great ignorance because the general realization of just some of the scientific truth that innovators have tried many times to make public would take power away from the people who are keeping science, the scientific 'community' in check.
But the information and the evidence is there to be found and examined and it is both fascinating and educational.
If it isn't obvious then bear this in mind too, that if robots cannot have emotions then nor can they have a 'mind of their own' that takes over the world from humans - it won't happen. Machines including robots don't have the psychopathic 'qualities' that are to be found everywhere among humans so the idea that they could take us over is just another ignorance based fear without any foundation in fact to support it and with every foundation in fact to dismiss it.
Robots won't ever shed real tears - any tears they might have will be just the same as a doll that sheds 'real' tears.
By Paul E. Coughlin
SaneThinking.com
25 August 2008
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