Lol.
When I say that the mind does so many transactions and “computes” (I use this for lack of a better term) so many commands, I don’t mean to simplify the brain, but I only meant to bring it down to a level of comparison. The point of what I was saying was, that even if you put emotions and conscience to the side for the moment, and focus only on the commands and functions of the brain every second, no computer can even do such a level of commands, even networking computers together. Now that the computer can’t even compute the basic 3 trillion commands a second, how can a computer factor in emotion?
Now let’s try to factor in emotion, and still leave conscience on the side-lines until later. It is almost impossible to program a computer to react to unexpected situations and act in accordance to these new occurrences, all the while still thinking and making instant decisions. Now, let’s bring back in conscience. With all that computing going on, now the computer would have to think, is this right, should I do this, and all that can effect the decision, rather than just making a straight decision (although it includes thinking ahead) as in a game of chess.
I strongly believe that human life is a very unique and unrepeatable. I think that making responsive computers, or even robots, like the toy ones, are cool and can be helpful to humans, but I think it is a horrible mistake to make humans the means, while technology is the end, rather than technology the means, while humans are the end. I respect the opinion of others on this topic, and it is great to hear other thoughts on it, but I just find human life too complex and too unique to copy.