Computers_And_Consciousness

Computers And Consciousness Computers and Consciousness Can a computer have a mind' This question has been debated upon for decades by philosophers, mathematicians, physicists’ etc. Alan Turing, a mathematician, said that if we cannot distinguish between the answers a computer gives to questions and the answers a human being gives, then the compute has a mind. But I stand at a different view. In the course of my paper I will discuss the various reasons I believe that computers are not conscious in the same way a human mind is conscious. To come to such a conclusion, as to whether or not computers are conscious the same way as a human mind, what we need to understand first is what exactly does it mean to be “conscious”. To be conscious means that one is aware of their existence, possesses feelings and has thoughts of their own. Computers were invented by human beings, humans who are not perfect and not all knowing. Computers are programmed by humans, and thus they don’t have the awareness of their own existence, they don’t have feelings and they are programmed to think the way their programmer has designed them to think. Computers lack the free will to think and human, computers, mind, humans, conscious, rules, computer, way, lack, think, programmed, never, feelings, emotional, decisions, value, system, senses, same, said, programmer, give, follow, existence, ethical, cannot, within, values, upon, thus, thoughts, things, speed, situations, set, self