SECRETS OF LIFE AND DEATH - SIMULATING LIFE
Sharma
God is far more superior than the best scientific minds. Life is a unique invention of God and no human effort can do anything equal to it. What is life, what are its ingredients? Let's talk about human life. Consciousness is most important ingredient of life. Only conscious person can do or think something. Without consciousness a person may either be sleeping, unconscious or dead. Intellect comes next to consciousness. Animals also have consciousness but humans have a far more developed intellect. Emotions come next to intellect. Conscious human with highly developed intellect but without emotions would feel more like a machine. Knowledge and physical body are next in order.
Let's sum it up "Conscious physical body with intellect leads to emergence of emotions and knowledge, which makes life meaningful."
Life has been cloned biologically; technically efforts are on to create a human made artificial life. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial Emotion (AE) are helping a great deal in perfecting the model of Artificial Life (AL!). Japanese are creating electronic pets which though can't replace the natural pets but they are a good choice for those who can't have the real ones. I wonder if someday people have choices for nagging wives and stubborn husbands :))))
We can create vast databases and our questions related to information available in right format can be answered within a second. We need to create databases of emotions as well so that the machines can understand us and act as per our convenience. Matching hardware is also important. We have body, brain being the most important organ. Computers have hard disk, ALU, processor. Life moves on its own. Robots equipped with computing power are coming near to that characteristic. Robots are still in their infancy but I am sure that on a near future date they shall be able to grab all human jobs. We have only to make sure that robots don't get any voting rights otherwise politicians will make a hell of human life. Robots can acquire reproductive capabilities and that shall be a real challenge for humans. Am I going to phase out or I shall survive in next incarnation by changing into a more orderly and disciplined robotic consciousness.
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Delhi
January 2008 