Suppose we all ran on electricity, how would we really be? Better yet would we still be considered human beings or machines that can actually think and have a mind of its own? How would we all function? Those are questions that come to mind when I hear that robots will once conquer mankind. Indeed robots seem to be extremely intelligent yet what most don't seem to understand, is that if it wasn't us, they would have never been created in the first place so how can they be smarter than us? In "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K. Dick believes robots will one day surpass humans in intelligence, however I disagree with him. I feel that in order for one to have intelligence, there should be a sense of emotion.
In Dick's graphic novel, he uses a character named Rachael who by the way is an "Android" to show how robots can be "human-like." Throughout the scene, a Bounty Hunter, Rick tries to test Rachael to see if she is really a human or not. He asks her many questions with weird scenario's that would sound crazy to the everyday norm. After answering a question based on something that would be considered unethical, Rick realizes that Rachael is an android. Rachael answers the question with no emotion which gives it away that she isn't human and everything from there on goes in disarray. Yet not human-like, Rachael seems to show that she is confused about what she is and doesn't want to be turned off.
Throughout the rest of the story, by seeing how she reacts, it does make me question in a way if robotic intelligence can surpass how humans thinking but then again, how can that be possible if, we are the creators? They would never have something that we have and that is a natural emotion. If there were even able to have some type of feeling embedded inside them, that means they're programmed therefore, there wouldn't be any natural control center from a "brain" that would be triggered for them to think on their own.
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