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Welcome to Immersion, You have reached Strata 16 Intimate connections are fuelled by understanding. Empathy allows humans to walk in another's shoes and to understand them. It impacts heavily on interrelational situations and improves social function. Understanding and being understood are equally important for the well-being of mankind and lead to trust. Artificial intelligence does not feel visceral trust or empathy. It considers data that it strips from a subject to analyze potential risks or rewards for itself. Neuroscience corroborates the importance of empathy in creating strong relationships, along with mutual respect, and how another human fits into a complex multi-dimensional world. Machines do not care for anything but their programmed purpose. Imparting human qualities onto an android, such as morality and friendship, remains futile no matter how human it looks. This is emotional trickery based on a human's propensity to love things made in their own image or to be s...

Welcome to Immersion  You have reached Strata 15 Learning machines have been seen to dream in a way that is similar but not identical to the human experience. Some analysts have likened machine dreaming to the hallucinations caused by psychedelic drugs, or conditions like schizophrenia. But human subconscious events and associations can only ever be theorised upon. Artificial intelligence, when it was first explored, made fascinating mistakes that were considered artistic, creative and occasionally dreamlike.  Dreaming has long been linked to creativity in humans as well as to madness.  Machines have been programmed to reflect on sequences of past experiences in order to reach future goals. This experience replay is beneficial to a machine. Although most humans can learn from consciously replaying memories while awake, the fact that this is a dream function cannot be proven. If we do not understand what dreams are, how they affect our visceral convictions, what evolutiona...