sometimes I think of my computer as AI in the sense that it has to take on my charateristics with programs that I use... sites that I visit and even how I type...

I belive that my computer while not in complete control of itself & it's functions, has a conscious

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hmm interesting idea

does seem quite a fair idea

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Dunno if i´m goin insane, but i feel a certain connection with my computer. Like a few weeks ago, i formatted and reinstalled the whole ****, and then i felt this NEED for cleaning my room as well (Wich is something i only do eery 6.th month).

:crazy: Your computer doesn't have a concious mind because it has no AI.

It's job is to be a 'desktop' and a 'file cabinet', it may be a computer but that doesn't mean it has a concious. (Which in my mind is 'Super AI') Create the AI first, then you can make friends with it.

Hehe, maybe that´s why some of my friends talk to their computers... redicioules... hahahaha... HAAAAAAAAAA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

If I am my computer. Then does that mine that I am a computer since I am what I eat. I also do think computers are great to talk to. Even if you make a chat on your computer on talk to someone call computer speak. It really is alot of fun to try out.

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I don't know if i would say "I am my computer" but my computer is certainly an extention of me, but thats through no fault of its own, i put the music there, i put the pictures there it wasn't a choice, so its more of an extention really (like putting rings on your fingers)

my computer is like my car. it has a name called bitch everytime the damn thing doesnt do what i tell it or direct it to do. as for it being anything like me, naaaaaa no way. it would constantly be crashing.

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Even though your computer doesn't have AI, some people, myself included, feel a connection to it. Maybe because of the personalization, it's an extension of your personality, mood, etc.

Computers are far from having a conscience.

A conscience means that it could think on its own.

The only thing a computer can do is what you tell it to do.

They are simply tools. Like a hammer, or piano.

It is an interface. Nothing more.

The only thing my computer resembles me in is it's ridiculously unorganized format.

I've got files and shit all over the place, my desktops a mess...

I do believe in some ways a computer can be an extension of yourself.

For instance when I'm entranced in a video game and am using the interface to basically do all things that are happening in the game, it's quite interesting to know how dazed and focused one can be on something such as that.

At some points you don't really pay attention to anything outside the screen, it's euphoric, dangerously at times.

I feel as if my computer is a tool, however, I would never say that I am attached to it. It is simply a tool, if I were able to get a better one, I wouldn't feel bad about throwing this one in the trash.

Unlike a pet. A pet can't be replaced, you have a pet and that pet displays a personality and gives itself merit to you and when it passes away it cannot be replaced, not even with one that is identical in appearance.

A computer however, is not alive, it has no personality and does not give any sort of merit, it is a tool and should be treated as such.

Some people have certain interactions on computers so often that their minds become conditioned to the stimulations they receive when on the computer so much that simply seeying it or touching it brings that same feeling back again.

For some that may be the feeling or sensation of talking to friends online, or perhaps the feelings of exiliration from playing games.

I would suggest that I've had these "feelings" not so much when I'm looking or on the computer, but more as an urge.

Somtimes I'll be more inclined to play one game than another , or speak to one person than another, because of some innate nostalgia that portends to that person or game. (I'm not attempting to juxtapose people to games, this is simply an example of an urge to do a specific thing, which would be an interaction in this case, be it with a game or a person or anything else)

It's intersting however, how much we put into our computers, how much information they hold about us, about our lives and ours secrets.

All the information that passes through them, onto the world wide web, or from the net into it and then to us.

I am very interested in the future of computing, with the way it's evolving today it is possible that in the future our computers may have better ways of being customized.

Perhaps someday computers will not be replacable, perhaps they will, as pets do, make a mark on us, and make us feel as if that particular computer was special and irreplaceable.

Only time can tell.

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I do not believe that my computer is an extention of me. It does what the programs I have put on it tell it to do. It is just a tool to me to be able to speak to people that are not right here with me and to voice my opinions on boards. If I had to say that my computer was an extension of me, I would definately have to get a better computer. This one sucks but suits its purpose for now until I can afford to upgrade.

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