Eli5 What are sentiments/emotions and why can’t a robot have them?
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So, I don’t know much about robots, but there is some evidence that consciousness is something separate from the brain. There are things we currently can’t explain with science by viewing the entirety of our being as just neurons firing in our brains. For example:
* Near-death experiences, where the person sees themselves come out of their body, and later can report what was happening in the room while they were technically “dead,” things they logically should have no way of knowing
* “Rallying” phenomenon where someone who is dying suddenly regains abilities they had lost, just before they pass away (specifically, thinking about dementia patients whose brain has lost much of its functioning)
* Past-life memories – there are stories of children recalling past lives where details were able to be confirmed, things they’d have no way of knowing as a child far separated from the time and place of the past life they remembered
* Some rare cases of people functioning normally without normal brain matter (ex: a person who had only a brain stem, but normal intelligence)
Source/further explanation: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPGZSC8odIU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPGZSC8odIU)
If it’s true then, that the brain might not be what creates consciousness, then creating a robotic “brain” (in essence) likely would not either, unless consciousness was added to it in whatever way our consciousness is connected to our human bodies.
Edited to comply with rule 5.
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