- Darthbill99
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Posted by: PHYNIX CALL
hello again Darthbill99,
I found your recent reply interesting even more then the first reply. So you are of the opinion that if you break everything down to it simplest basic operation that even the human brain is nothing more then a set in chemical instrutctions? first I am going to ask you,do you know about how materials interact with their enviroment( IE how matter tranform from one state to another, Soild to liquid to gass and the final state energy))The human brain experiences change physically every time an emotion is experience, thus changing how electrical impulse flow through the brain. It is because of this physical change we grow and adapt to our enviroment, unlike a computer program which can only follow it set programming. The human brain react to more then situation then information presented to it in a logical manner. for this example, if you hurt your person vie a cut or bruse you can hurt another part of your body to deflect the sensation of pain. The reason is because unlike a computer program you brain process multitude of stimuli to ajust the electrical impulse sent to it. It does not follow a logical path( ie point one to two and so on) like a computer program. This is the base instinct of feeling and emotion which a computer program can never know or experience. It can emulate the event and copy a reaction the same as the human brain but it is not physically change by the event unlike the human brain. A computer program just follow it instruction. Now to borrow a line from Startrek ( you Humans are so illogical sometimes, it make me wonder how you survived at all). The physical and chemical changes in the brain that result in emotions are part of the set rules within all biological systems, not just the brain. The brain is wired up so that when it experiences a certain stimuli, a chemical change occurs, leading to a reaction to that stimuli, an emotion. I see no reason why a sufficiently advanced AI couldn't imitate that. Smart AI's also change and learn from experiences like a real brain. The difference is that they don't have unlimited room to grow like a human brain and their logic maps eventually get too interconnected and cause feedback loops that drive them mad and destroy them (i.e. rampancy).
Regardless of all the Science behind it, you must admit that all empirical evidence points to Cortana being an emotionally developed and fully sentient character. She feels fear and embarrassment at her rampancy, to the point that she avoided telling Chief at first even though that could endanger him. She clearly cared for chief, even more than humanity, as you could see with her line, "I'm not doing this for mankind" before she restrained the Didact.