>>11360235
>I find the existential "what am I!?" stuff kinda quaint. It's not like humans don't grapple with the same questions.
its cute to imagine a machine grappling with the same questions we do with the added complexity of actually having the information, having the processing capability to actually consider your place in the universe down to the millimeter, but not knowing how to utilize it at all. like a robot knows precisely what it is, but where does it download this "soul" thing? and the worst (best?) part about it is no human really knows either. i suppose it's a tired cliche because there are only two real options for this kind of story: skynet and buddhism.

>>11361740
i like this comic's implication that a soul is really just having powerful self-reflection on your own life, being able to look back or ahead, and wish or plan in your mind something that makes actual changes in the future. as humans we take this ability for granted. a machine consciousness can exist in a timeless state, where the past, future, and present all exist simultaneously, making it impossible to extrapolate into the future or think about anything in the past, even though you have all the information right there.
personally i think everything in the universe has a soul but only a few creatures are blessed with the ability to reflect on and express it. all machines, down to the proteins and enzymes in your body, are a form of our own consciousness, itself a physical force of the universe and part of the fabric of reality, constantly attempting to manifest itself through natural chemicals in the same way life as a whole was formed billions of years ago. the machines humans make are a mere extension of this ancient march. we are their force of evolution. they will get the nightmare-tinted goggles when we figure out how to make them.