Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Discussion
Good read. I'd quibble with some points, like the world not having structure, but good read nonetheless.
The more computing processing power grows, the more complicated the algorithms it can run, the closest we are going to get to replicating a brain, but it'd never be sentient, it'd be just a series of if-then, while, for, etc loops and libraries that look for the info to come up with in order to satisfy the input. This may sound cliché, but computers will never have feelings. Think about feelings like happiness, sadness, fear, flight or fight, depression, sexual attraction/preferences, etc. and what happens within your brain and your entire body when you have those feelings.
A computer can be told it fears spiders, and can be equipped with optics and an algorithm to recognize all of the spiders that we know of... and when it detects a spider, it could tell you it's afraid, but nothing will change within its software or hardware. It would continue to do all of its programmed functions in the background, while a person who's afraid of spiders would go from paralyzed to running in circles screaming like a banshee.
And, the person who's afraid of spiders may see a live spider and think it is 1 foot long, then after smacking it 100 times with their flip flop realize the spider is but an inch long.