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That is what i'm saying yes, would've thought the other paragraphs made that clear.
That animals are inferior to human beings? Because that would be my argument.
Plenty of humans fit this description as well, putting their *special* thinking skills to work with frequent brain farts on twitter. A lot of males in particular still take pride in showing no emotion, and may as well have none
Unless you're talking about mental disorders I don't know what you're talking about.
Men who say they don't have emotions, amazingly, have emotions.
Either they're smart enough to *not* **** up the planet, or a species smarter than humans would've figured out a way to control climate change before it became a crisis.
Few humans understand these things either. You are attributing to the whole species a few accomplishments by truly exceptional humans. How many in your graduating class understood relativity, or how to build a space ship? Even then, our space ships have blown up right after taking off, and relativity is still under revision. For every leap, there's a stumble
We're really dodging the point here - that a certain evolution level must be attained before a species should be granted rights that are directly relating to these cognitive abilities, cognitive abilities that animals just don't have.
Computers are already besting the human chess champion, winning jeapordy, driving cars for us. Some of the leaders in this field predict they'll become self aware by 2040
It happens to be my field and I do wonder who these "leaders" are.
A little bit on programs/machines: programs are written by human beings. They are written to function in a certain way as their developer(s) chooses to. These writings are called "scripts". You can write a script as long as you want to, but it will always be limited by the laws of math. This is our current technology. This current technology allows us to write a program that is so good at chess that it beats the world's champion. Why? Because the script covers every possible move. The biggest and perhaps only advantage a program has over a human being is the calculation speed, as such it's obvious why it would beat the human world champion at chess when it has a storage of information regarding every possible move in chess and how it will end and has the ability to scan all these options and pick the best one in a matter of mere nanoseconds.
However a true AI is a program that programs itself, it's impractical and is not within our technological reach. It's basically science fiction and I don't see a reason to believe it will ever cease being so. If you'll write a script with 1 billion programmers for ten years perhaps you'd reach something that is resembling an AI, but it will not be a true AI since it will still be limited by its script code.