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08/08/2013

My Thoughts

Sometimes we need instruction on what something is not as well as what something is. If we instruct a child that a horse has four legs, a tail in the back, a head (with eyes, ears, nose and a mouth), that protrudes from a neck in the front, a student my see a cow and conclude it's a horse.

Well, in the same manner when we consider the future of robots, as mentioned in this article LINK , we can see that a Man is much more than the sum of his physical parts and contains a conscience in a manner that would have to specifically be programmed into a cyborg. What laws and controls will be agreed upon as to how that conscience can be programmed into such a droid? I'm sure that question will be answered differently when an ISIS terrorist is ordering droids from North Korea as opposed to USA ordering their army to fight for freedom in Turkey.

Without a standard that is above all cultures and continents, there can not be an agreed upon set of rules that should be standard in a droid. If there is a standard that is 'good' for all people of the world then I say it points to a standard above all mankind.

I would even say that there is a beauty standard that is above all creation. Why else would there be a Miss Universe contest, unless the entire universe can understand what's good and bad about beauty? I personally don't think beauty is in the eye of the beholder any more than truth is in the eye of the beholder.

Thank about that.

Love,
Dad