Thousands of psychiatrists and psychologists study how the human mind works, but computer scientists have come the closest to understand it without realising they work on it. Today's computers are in fact technological models of the human mind, far surpassing the individual human brain in speed and capacity. And artificial intelligence is moving ever closer to modelling even emotions. Many experts have thought that emotions make humans human, and this now seems to be disproved. Emotions, it turns out, are merely complex reactions to stimuli from the outside world, which can be converted into words, facial expressions, sequences of actions, so, can be programmed. Thus, as robotics technology develops, humanoid robots will become deceptively human-like and may even live as humans. 

Who will draw the line, and on what basis, between human and robot, when experts cannot even draw a clear line between male and female? Who will decide whether a humanoid robot can be dismantled, whether it can be switched off, whether it has rights and what they have? How do we even define what a living being is? A humanoid robot that will be more intelligent than most humans, will be able to evolve and multiply itself, will be indestructible, will be able to feed itself with solar energy, will be able to replace its body parts and will have a whole range of abilities that a flesh and blood human does not have, will be able to think that it is more perfect than a human and will not need a human, which is not the case on the opposite way. There is a debate among scientists about what we do when artificial intelligence overtakes us. Most probably nothing, because we are not doing anything now that requires cooperation. The unity and cooperation of all those who has part-knowledge could make our knowledge even more complete, so that we can find the right decisions and solutions. In the meantime, creating artificial intelligence is a great way to study how the flesh-and-blood computer in our heads works, and why works better what is not flesh-and-blood. 

My findings are:
 

- Human mind-computers run outdated software that has not been updated for a long time. We look like worn-out, misprogrammed bio-robots, albeit originally designed for self-improvement and self-programming, not destroyed for ethical reasons, but put on a site, called Earth to do as they please while resources last. Then they were left to their fate.
- With no maintenance, the mind-computer is full of fragmented programs that prevent stable operation, self-improvement, and it has only enough energy to mobilize the system for the mere sustenance of life.
- It runs on a material diet. Organising metabolism, acquiring, transforming and emptying food, imposes a lot of logistical tasks on the mind.
- Its reaction to external influences is essentially desire-oriented and saturated with attachments.- The response to external stimuli is entirely subjective, depending mainly on the internal mental content. ...

The inner attitude (programming) determines to a large extent our responses to the outside world, and even how we perceive the outside world. ...

Why do intelligent robots made by humans work better?
 

- Because they are freshly programmed, they don't have outdated, fragmented background programs that interfere with the running of the main program, which is self-improvement.
- They are continuously maintained and improved.
- They run on energy alone, they have no metabolism. Since they have no internal organs, their "nervous system" carries out the programmed function only. Their emotional reactions are only feedback for humans, they don't actually feel anything, so their activity is not affected.
- They have no personal desires or attachments (for now). But a self-improving robot can upload these to ownself. Self-improvement works by observing people and copying their behaviour patterns. But the robot can select the patterns that it loads, and delete or doesn't load the patterns that interfere with its core program.
- Because it is in constant contact with the entire computerised database, it can access all the information it needs in a matter of seconds, and therefore make more logical, objective and rational decisions. It will have no built-in moral inhibitions based on religion or culture, so they will not affect its decisions.

Margaret Rhasoda-Varga
UCCM head-master
(Without illusions, excerpt)