Man vs Machines

Creativity: what is it? 

The ability to produce something different, something fresh, like magic out of thin air. Poof! And thoughts converted to something: it materialized. People are the only ones capable of that: till now. 

If you think closely human’s creativity is often the result of his/her life experiences, beliefs and practices. There can’t be any output without certain inputs. Machines just don’t have that much inputs to be creative. Can they be creative if they had certain amount of data? Well thankfully we don’t have that answer yet.

When we compare ourselves to machines, we pride on creativity and emotions. We even accept imperfections to a certain degree to get the feel of a human rather than a machine. Do we really appreciate the quality of the product or do we empathize with the human creator? What if a machine was to judge the product. Well unless a pure machine (machine entirely created by other machines on their own volition, which would take input data on its own and would have its own principles and practices which it would decide by itself) is born/created, we can’t say, because we would be the ones to provide the judging logic and criteria to the machines.

Emotions, feelings, what are these, can these be defined, if these can be defined they can be designed. We still don’t understand emotions that well. We still don’t know why some people act the way they do in certain circumstances, while others react differently. Sometimes people would be selfish, sometimes they do selfless deeds without any expectations of returns, or do they expect, we can only speculate.

Emotions are used to bond with other humans. One human appreciates the beauty of emotions in the other human and they connect. All things can’t be said. Emotions are complex information compressed to simplicity and transmitted. Before the advent of language, emotions must be the primary mode of communication. With highly developed language structure, is it possible to overcome the need of emotions? What if we become self-sufficient with defined roles for everyone. The society will perform perfectly. Will emotions be obsolete in the future then? I believe our language is imperfect. What would happen if we develop a language so powerful that we don’t need emotions to convey information anymore.

Where would man evolve: to being more human or being more machine?

Where would machines evolve: to being more precise and more ‘machine’ or they would imitate humans?

Are we imperfect because we are still evolving or is there a reason for this imperfection?

The ultimate questions: Do we need imperfections anymore? I think the answer to this question can predict future a lot better.

What do you believe in?