A.I. emotions
I think that although feelings are chemical, what feelings are attached to what situations is regulated by what would most accurately be called the spirit, may be very loosely referred to as a soul, but not in the traditional western sense. This attachment will be called emotion, different from feelings. Although Artificial Intelligence has been shown to attach the proper responses to the correct situation, the only way to measure emotion, and thus "proof" of a "soul", would be for an intelligent system to express a proper set of feelings for a situation that was not only not programmed, but entirely separate from anything it has been told of or programmed to react to, and must not have a confusion subroutine to apply to situations it has not been prepared for. If not already programmed (though even the simplest, non-thinking programs have confusion subroutines built in), expressing confusion in a way that would not involve crashing, endlessly continuing to search for the proper response, or otherwise developing problems for when there is a command with no explanation. If you think otherwise or think that this thread (wow, 4 words in a row starting with th-, do not let this detract from the seriousness of the post) should be relocated to Anime/Shows/Other Movies and renamed Ghost in the Shell (which I've never watched, only read about), feel free to say so, but I thought it belonged here more.
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