subject: Cyborgs and Androids: What is the Difference? [print this page] Androids are the subject of many science fiction films, and the suggestion is often that somehow they are 'alive' or intelligent. But in my opinion, artificial intelligence is just that- artificial. But are binary-based conscious beings actually possible? In the present, I don't think so. But what constitutes a mind that is self-aware and replete with a continuous emotional state? What is a soul? Modern science evades these questions almost with hostility. In fact, science is incapable of answering them. The possibility of cyber life forms remains a possibility.
