Do the Androids dream of human rights?

Artificial intelligence surrounds us everywhere. He is responsible for personalized advertising, writes articles and books, he is even trusted to finish the tenth symphony of Beethoven. So far, a person is being touched by the mistakes of bots and voice assistants, but soon, it seems, he will have to deal with creatures that can erase the boundaries between the human and artificial mind. Is it worth it to vested smart machines that, afterthe fourth industrial revolution, will inevitably take their place in human society? Or perhaps they will require them themselves?

The usual philosophy of law in the case of AI does not work - since it is inextricably linked with consciousness. But science is still difficult to explain what it is. Intuitively, we understand what it means to be a person, but it is difficult for us to determine such concepts as “thought”, “consciousness” or even “life”.

One view of consciousness comes from quantum theory. According to her Copenhagen interpretation , consciousness and the physical world are complementary components of one reality. When a person observes something or conducts an experiment, some aspects of the physical world change under the influence of consciousness. It exists in itself, but to become real, it needs a brain. Such a view of consciousness was popular among pioneers of quantum theory - Niels Bor and Erwin Schrödinger.

Computer experts believe that the main function of consciousness is the perception of new information , storage and sorting of the old. After cognitive processing, all data are turned into perception and action. According to this logic, cars will once become a perfect consciousness -they will get the opportunity to collect much more information, store it in immense archives, gain access to it for milliseconds and recount it into decisions more complex and logical, which a person will ever be able to ever.

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