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It has been a long-standing contention on whether or not robots can eventually be as intelligent as humans. Neither side of the contention has provided solid arguments of proving this way or the other. We reason in this article that a digital robot will not have same mental experience as a human so far as the self-awareness of an existing person cannot be duplicated. This thesis draws a line between biological humans and digital robots. It makes us rethink the issues such as the limitation of computer software, how far machine intelligence can go, whether robots will eventually dominate humans intellectually, what machines are, and who we are.
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Wang, J. (2012). Will a Robot Be a Human?. In: Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L.A., Zurada, J.M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7268. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29350-4_62
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