{"id":1331,"date":"2014-11-09T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T06:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/rammar18\/?p=59"},"modified":"2014-11-09T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T06:32:11","slug":"cst-week-7-are-mechanical-objects-vessels-to-hold-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/cst-week-7-are-mechanical-objects-vessels-to-hold-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"CST: Week 7 Are mechanical objects vessels to hold consciousness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/rammar18\/cst-week-7-are-mechanical-objects-vessels-to-hold-consciousness\/\"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was shopping on Amazon I came across this new device and after watching this video I didn&#8217;t know whether to be excited or disturbed. This device is a channel for consciousness to flow through and even has the mechanical hardware to seemingly make decisions and respond of its own accord to questions. My question was then: is this thing animate or inanimate? It&#8217;s seems to be quite animated but isn&#8217;t it just a thing? While sitting and meditating next to my printer I thought to myself: this thing is animated by my actions, is it animate? The same thing applied to the Amazon Echo. In a sense it is animated&#8211;by my consciousness extending itself into the software and hardware. But does that form of animation have a sense of its own animation? If the biological body is animated out of the mind, who&#8217;s to say a mechanical body cannot house conscious?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was shopping on Amazon I came across this new device and after watching this video I didn&rsquo;t know whether to be excited or disturbed. This device is a channel for consciousness to flow through and even has the mechanical hardware to seemingly make decisions and respond of its own accord to questions. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":633,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}