Machines and Human Emotions

No,

I would expect that insofar as

machines might survive man, and they might,

they would only carry on,

in a sense, the same direction,

same general direction,

that man would have carried on if he could have.

Am I clear?

So to speak, the machines would be standing on our

shoulders.

Somehow the purpose that a machine, no matter

how complicated and how clever, could have, to my mind,

isn't equatable. When man has gone, these machines would, in

essence, be purposeless.

I doubt that.

I would say, in essence, they would be purposeful.

And there would be, in your feeling, nothing gone and nothing missing from the

world.

I mean, there's one thing you can be pretty sure

of. Man won't survive forever.

From all that we know of the sun

and of other stars, that would be the most improbable thing.

Something else will come.

And in your opinion, it might be something of man's own

creation?

Yes.

Well, here's the problem that I'm trying to get at.

Here's the thing that I'm trying to get at.

You have two grandchildren right there.

And I can't see that a machine will ever feel toward any of

its-

Why not?

... creatures the way you feel about them.

That's the one thing that I can't get.

Well, I think I could set it up for you because

I'm

certain that

if I do it, there is a mechanism that can do it.

If I can manage to state that in a finite and unambiguous manner,

then

I think

it can be done. And I see no reason why we can't develop a

logic of

relations in time to come.