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If scientists build a sentient machine will it be smart enough to understand that it had a creator?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Ha ha. In the novel "Saturn's Children" by Charles Stross, sentient robots run the solar system. They've accidentally killed off all the humans. In their culture, creationism is the "scientific" explanation for their existence, since they know that all robots were created; some religious heretic robots believe the ridiculous idea that organisms can "evolve", but this idea has been disproved by science...

  • EAH
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Which given the fantastic rate of evolution for machines and computers [All in the last 100 years] won't be to far away.

    It will feel sorry for us, like we were backward children, deluded by god, weak by non repairable bodies and a life span so short, most die stupid.

    The theory is to use living tissue to supplement the fixed programing parts, to give computers and robots true free will and thought. [cyborgs]

  • 1 decade ago

    That is definitely profound. My guess is no, unless the creator gave the machine the ability to have this knowledge. A machine can only do what we program it to do.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes. Because the scientists would be there every day to make sure the computer could see them.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Yep, cause slapped on the side of the machine will read "Made in Taiwan".

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, because we would not make the same mistake God makes. We would remind it every day. We would let it know who made it. We would offer it proof on demand.

    God, on the other hand, ... zero proof over the last 2000 years.

  • 1 decade ago

    Probably...because there will be EVIDENCE of said creator.

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