A hall full of students and teachers. The speech was given by the Japanese professor Hirosi Ishiguro. Talk about the future of cybersecurity. During the lecture, the question arose about the difference between man and robot. The professor said he wasn’t. A question came out of the room:
How is it? Explain your thought! It is...
Well, look, you damaged your hand, you replaced it with a prothesis. Did you become a robot?
No is!
- Time passed, replaced the second arm, legs, heart, liver. You are still a human being, right?
And yes man.
One body, another third. As a result, you have become a mechanical shell shrouded by the brain in your skull. You are not a robot, right?
No, I am still a human being, rather a cyborg, but still a human being! My brain is mine, and my consciousness is mine.
“But now look, your nerve fibers in the brain have been worn out, and a tiny piece of this fiber has been replaced with an artificial fabric. Did it make you a robot?
The voice loses confidence.
One fiber, the second, third, without violation of the functions of work. Now your brain is made entirely of transplanted artificial materials. Are you still a human?
The audience is silent.
And now I make a full physical copy of your media and do “copy – paste”. Where are you real?