Can you buy a pain sensor from Amazon to make your robot feel pain? Now picture this:
Assuming the total area of average human skin is 4m^2.. now pinch any place with a needle head.. the brain not only will sense
the pain, but will precisely define where in the skin area the pinch was, and will sense the pressure applied to the needle, and will sense how deep the needle travelled in the body, and will sense the degree of temperature of the needle. all this in area in the micrometer range.. Now imagine two needles pinched two places in the same skin, but with different values of the above parameters.. the brain will sense all these values including the exact locations of the needles. If we thought that there are sensors in that area, now calculate how many sensors we have in our skin. Again, imagine instead of a needle, we used a rectangular shaped heated metal, the brain will sense the exact area covered by the heated metal piece.
How about the other sensors? smell, hearing, sight.. etc. you see a photo of a person, your brain sensors know the color, the size of the picture, compare it on the fly to a database and if found a match recognize it as Mr. Joe (but he looks older now) and your brain also may know if the person in the photo is worrying about something.
If you were born 40 years ago, then everything you saw, you smell, you heard, you knew, you experienced.. all are recorded in real time in HD full color video and stereo, and ALL are saved simultaneously, in every second of your life your brain records the video, audio, kind of smell (gas analysis and save results) heat.. all in real time. If after 10 years you smelled something you remember the place and the beautiful girl you were talking to at that (evening) in Starbucks where it was a little cold and where Beethoven Symphony was playing and a few people were there.
All of the above is a tiny fraction of the capabilities of this God created robot.
Now think about those who compares human mind with a computer.
Assuming the total area of average human skin is 4m^2.. now pinch any place with a needle head.. the brain not only will sense
the pain, but will precisely define where in the skin area the pinch was, and will sense the pressure applied to the needle, and will sense how deep the needle travelled in the body, and will sense the degree of temperature of the needle. all this in area in the micrometer range.. Now imagine two needles pinched two places in the same skin, but with different values of the above parameters.. the brain will sense all these values including the exact locations of the needles. If we thought that there are sensors in that area, now calculate how many sensors we have in our skin. Again, imagine instead of a needle, we used a rectangular shaped heated metal, the brain will sense the exact area covered by the heated metal piece.
How about the other sensors? smell, hearing, sight.. etc. you see a photo of a person, your brain sensors know the color, the size of the picture, compare it on the fly to a database and if found a match recognize it as Mr. Joe (but he looks older now) and your brain also may know if the person in the photo is worrying about something.
If you were born 40 years ago, then everything you saw, you smell, you heard, you knew, you experienced.. all are recorded in real time in HD full color video and stereo, and ALL are saved simultaneously, in every second of your life your brain records the video, audio, kind of smell (gas analysis and save results) heat.. all in real time. If after 10 years you smelled something you remember the place and the beautiful girl you were talking to at that (evening) in Starbucks where it was a little cold and where Beethoven Symphony was playing and a few people were there.
All of the above is a tiny fraction of the capabilities of this God created robot.
Now think about those who compares human mind with a computer.