Can a machine know?
Whether it is reciting the news, ferrying documents between offices or delivering food in hospitals, there is little the latest robots cannot do. Robots are automatically operated machines which replace human effort . But can they "know"? My stand is that though machines cannot do everything a human can, they can perform certain functions and they do "know" in this respect. A machine cannot fall in love or win a beauty contest, but then again, humans cannot do everything a machine can.
When does someone, or something, since the situation calls for this, "know" something? There are many definitions of knowledge, some of which limit it to humans only. The essence of most of the definitions, though, is that knowledge is the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose '. How does one express understanding? We can know someone has understood something only when they perform accordingly or exhibit their......
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