02-25-2011, 01:48 AM
As a former programmer I highly doubt creating consciousness is possible, it's called artificial intelligence for a reason. You can give a computer so many instructions for so many scenarios that it may seem like its thinking, but its not. I don't know what consciousness is, but I doubt giving a computer 3D consciousness is possible. Furthermore the human mind has logic and emotion, emotion is alot more complicated to replicate than logic and while you could argue that there's no difference between a humans logic and that of an extremely well programmed computer, there's no way genuine emotion or intuition could be recreated.