Timeline for Do Terminators feel pain?
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| Jul 11, 2015 at 23:23 | vote | accept | Wad Cheber | ||
| Jul 8, 2015 at 17:25 | answer | added | Chris Pawlukiewicz | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 8, 2015 at 10:42 | answer | added | Jon Hanna | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 8, 2015 at 9:11 | answer | added | Overmind | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 16:41 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | This question comes down to "do Terminators have a self-aware consciousness" as that's really the only distinction. And we can't even prove that we have self-aware consciousness, so.... | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 14:31 | comment | added | mwfearnley | I would say a Terminator doesn't care -- at all -- about how "painful" an experience might be. But there is a strong correlation between pain and bodily impairment, and bodily impairment may adversely affect its chances of succeeding at its mission, which is all it cares about. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 10:36 | answer | added | Damon | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 3:22 | answer | added | Praxis | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 20:31 | answer | added | Count Iblis | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 14:00 | comment | added | anaximander | This could get philosophical. The Terminators can detect when their bodies are receiving damage, they dislike this sensation, and they have a desire to avoid it. On some level, that is pain. A Terminator can choose to ignore incoming damage reports when accepting that damage is necessary to achieve an objective, but so can a human, in the right cirumstances. Whether a Terminator can be shut down by sufficient pain levels as a human can is unclear (evidence strongly suggests not), but other than that, the difference is mostly in how they respond to the "pain". | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 10:49 | comment | added | DevSolar | @Richard: I'm with you there. A nose does not "feel queasy", it only smells. An eye does not feel revulsion, it only sees. An ear does not hear discordance, it only hears. It's the grey matter vs. CPU processing that makes the difference. -- On second thought, all our sensors have an inbuild "redline" that trigger protective reflexes to avoid being burned out. I'd assume a Terminator works similar, minus the angst. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 10:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/618001829427810304 | ||
| Jul 6, 2015 at 10:02 | comment | added | Valorum | @WadCheber - The better analogy would be using an electronic nose. Does it "smell" or does it merely detect odors? | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 9:52 | answer | added | DevSolar | timeline score: 54 | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 9:44 | comment | added | Wad Cheber | @Richard - If you really don't understand the difference between acknowledging damage and feeling excruciating pain, you should try elective surgery, on two consecutive occasions, once with local anesthesia and one with no anesthesia whatsoever. You'll figure it out pretty quickly. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 9:38 | comment | added | Valorum | @SJuan76 - Since the Terminator can function perfectly well without the skin coating it, I'd say that the analogy was actually pretty good. It would need two health bars; one for the skin, one for the main exoskeleton. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 8:29 | answer | added | Mr. Boy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 6:44 | answer | added | SteveCav | timeline score: 38 | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 6:20 | comment | added | Valorum | See the discussion below my answer here; scifi.stackexchange.com/a/67724/20774. What's the difference between a machine response to pain and our own? It feels pain, it just reacts differently. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 5:44 | comment | added | Major Stackings | Likely the data is like a health bar going from green to red. The Terminator would have a damage indicator, but from the amount of damage we've seen them absorb, feeling the pain would be a waste of CPU time. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 5:28 | comment | added | Valorum | I don't understand. What's the difference? | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 5:12 | history | asked | Wad Cheber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |