Can a Machine Know ?

One of the most biased and controversial topics in the field of philosophy is that of a statement, and the questioning of "Can a machine know." The problems associating and surrounding this topic are endless, because of all the different biases, reasonable and skeptical thoughts that people contribute to the discussions. On an occasion when this turmoil question comes up an individual might be comparing and thinking that a plain toaster is a machine which is true and yet someone else compares the newest breakthrough in technology such as a robot and they might say that its "knows" what it is doing. However in the end of each discussion there is a doubt, this simple emotion, this chemical imbalance that makes you think of what you just said and it says to you in the back of your mind "is a machine actually conscious", this doubt proves that a machine is not alive and its does not know what it is doing a person might just argue for this topic just for the arguing part of it. From the beginning scientist simplify the emotions into chemical imbalances and say that the machine has them yet still the key thought here was that they have simplified the thought or emotion or what makes a human a human, this is just a form of cheating and lying to oneself that people do to say that they have progressed in technology.

Machines are electronic or mechanical devices or in some cases both which would be considered a technological hybrid composed of dead cells that do not require food or water to function and survive which makes them incapable of feeling pain or happiness. There are many scientific groups that may come up with the newest type of robot and say that it has all the functions that a living individual maybe have, yet the flaw in...

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...nic heat receptor and the machine will say ouch when the temperature reaches a certain point and a button will be triggered of the machine to say ouch, that is not a conscious machine its is but a more complex thermometer. For a machine to be alive and know it would have to be able to interpret the information and build on the information it would have to have the ability to learn and understand the information on its own will and not by a programmer that would store the information from a text book in the computer in the shape of a human (a robot such as the Honda one). But most importantly a knowing machine would have to have some sort of independent process of improving itself weather it is to the positive side or the negative one it would simply have to learn how to adapt, feel, and evolve which it will never learn making a machine and unknowing unconscious robot.