Can a Computer Have a Mind

A new issue has come about since the building of computers. But the idea behind it is not such a new issue, for as long ago as Plato and Aristotle, the idea of a mind was pondered about. With the up-and-coming technology, the idea of artificial intelligence has exploded. It is one that many fiction writers have prospered on. But how far away are they from the truth? Take the story of The Bicentennial Man …showed first 75 words of 2088 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2088 total…a computer could have a mind. But the truth of it is, as Nagel had claimed, that we would never know. A computer may already have a mind that is unlike our own, so we cannot explain it, and we don’t understand it, but that doesn’t mean that the computer can’t have a mind. So yes, I believe that a computer can have a mind, and one-day, we may better understand this.