Robots with Feeling Will Never Exist

A new mathematical model has claimed that robots with feeling will never exist. It has demonstrated that the brain creates consciousness and computers cannot handle any process that requires thorough integration of information. It won't be wrong to say that they will never be able to feel or become conscious.

The mathematical frame work was developed by Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work suggested that the skill to assimilate information is the main feature of consciousness. According to him, brain is capable of contextualizing a set of information and there is no way to break integrated information into smaller components in conscious minds.

Phil Maguire of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth said: "You have to put in two bits and you get one out. If the brain integrated information in this fashion, it would have to be continuously hemorrhaging information".

He said that machines can easily edit a collection of individual pictures, but memories and experiences cannot be modified in the same manner because they are made up of a group of intertwined experiences. The mathematical model has drawn a very clear picture that computer will never be able to handle the intricate procedure to gather pieces of information together impeccably.

Maguire said it is not possible to generate consciousness in machine in a set time frame and with limited memory. He explained that it does not mean that brain is kind of magical thing and is helped by some forces that can't be explained physically. However, this whole thing is so complex that it is not possible to reverse it and decompose it.

For consciousness, an amalgamation of lots of sets of information is required and that is why computers cannot be made conscious and experience feelings like humans, said Maguire.


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