100 Questions:
Questions to answer before we build an artificial brain
by
William  A. Spriggs


Will our artificial brain be male or female?
Will our artificial brain have the experience of being born?
Will our artificial brain be required to search and consume some form of food?
Will our artificial brain be required to digest such food?
Will our artificial brain be required to reallocate and expel waste?
Will our artificial brain have the experience of bonding with its mother?
Will our artificial brain have the experience of tasting breast milk?
Will our artificial brain have the knowledge of hearing a soothing mother's voice?
Will our artificial brain know the soft touch of a mother's caress?
Will our artificial brain have a father?
Will our artificial brain know the stern words of a father's discipline?
Will our artificial brain witness the strength of a father's resolve?
Will our artificial brain know the protective nature of a father?
Will our artificial brain we build be rich or poor?
Will our artificial brain we build be culturally white, black, brown, yellow, red, gold, silver, or green?
Will our artificial brain we build be nurtured in a safe environment to encourage development?
Will our artificial brain experience the loss of childhood due to a dangerous environment?
Will our artificial brain have friends? if so whom?
Will our artificial brain be dominant or submissive in relating to friends?
Will our artificial brain know the confusion of puberty?
Will our artificial brain know the mating techniques of an adolescent female?
Will our artificial brain know the mating techniques of an adolescent male?
Will our artificial brain know the swell of masculine pride?
Will our artificial brain know the coyness of a feminine query?
Will our artificial brain experience the sexual angst of longing for a mate?
Will our artificial brain know how to flirt with the opposite sex?
Will our artificial brain be given the experience of shaving facial hair?
Will our artificial brain be given the experience of shaving leg and underarm hair?
Will our artificial brain know the comfort of cuddling next to a loved one?
Will our artificial brain know the difference between the passion of lust and the passion of hate?
Will our artificial brain know the concept of forming a family?
Will our artificial brain be given the ability to gather and store resources?
Will our artificial brain feel the pain of losing a loved one?
Will our artificial brain we build ever experience the pain of childbirth?
Will our artificial brain we build know the joy of holding a child it has given birth to?
Will our artificial brain be able to teach a child to ride a bike?
Will our artificial brain be able to converse with a seven year old child?
Will our artificial brain be able to converse with a human in their 20's?
Will our artificial brain be able to converse with a human in their 40's?
Will our artificial brain be able to converse with a human in their 80's"
Will our artificial brain be given just one language to interact with humans?
Will our artificial brain listen in just one language?
Will our artificial brain be brave or weak?
Will our artificial brain have sensitivity?
Will our artificial brain have a sense of community?
Will our artificial brain know what is altruism?
Will our artificial brain have humility?
Will our artificial brain have determination?
Will our artificial brain have compassion?
Will our artificial brain be orderly and tidy in its surroundings?
Will our artificial brain be extroverted or inhibited in its daily affairs?
Will our artificial brain be able to spoof others?
Will our artificial brain have an inquiring mind?
Will our artificial brain be given a sense of mission?
Will our artificial brain be masterful at any one skill?
Will our artificial brain rank humans as humans rank humans?
Will our artificial brain have pride?
Will our artificial brain have a past?
Will our artificial brain be able to ponder and muse?
Will our artificial brain understand the reason humans go to war?
Will our artificial brain be given the knowledge of war's victory?
Will our artificial brain know the pain and humiliation of war's defeat?
Will our artificial brain understand our quest for peace?
Will our artificial brain know the shame of rape?
Will our artificial brain know the horror of torture?
Will our artificial brain know the horror of a limb loss?
Will our artificial brain know the difference between honesty and dishonesty?
Will our artificial brain know how to tell a fable?
Will our artificial brain know not to derogate a human? or another artificial brain?
Will our artificial brain know how to judge a grievance?
Will our artificial brain know how to speculate?
Will our artificial brain know how to be stupid when it needs or wants?
Will our artificial brain be able to write a terse, crisp, reply to a question?
Will our artificial brain be able to write fiction based on it's own stored memories?
Will our artificial brain learn not to be acrimonious?
Will our artificial brain learn the joy of singing and dancing in the rain?
Will our artificial brain know the difference between the past, present, or the future?
Will our artificial brain be in the now? or will it dwell in the past?
Will our artificial brain know the meaning of the Ten Commandments?
Will our artificial brain know what it needs?
Will our artificial brain know what it wants?
Will our artificial brain know how to wish?
Will our artificial brain know pornography when it sees it?
Will our artificial brain ever control the reproductive cycle of humans? of other artificial brains?
Will our artificial brain be able to reproduce?
Will our artificial brain be able to adapt and evolve to local environments?
Will our artificial brain ever be an impediment?
Will our artificial brain be forever attentive?
Will our artificial brain be independent of our needs?
Will our artificial brain be independent of our wants?
Will our artificial brain be independent of our wishes?
Will our artificial brain know when a politician is telling the truth?
Will our artificial brain be given the desire for power and status?
Will our artificial brain know how to treat humans with dignity and respect?
Will our artificial brain be self-aware?
Will our artificial brain be given the knowledge that we humans created it?
Will our artificial brain seek out others like its own?
Will our artificial brain contemplate the end of its own life?
Will our artificial brain be able to contemplate the afterlife?
Will our artificial brain be given immortality?

Origin: December 1995


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