The Digital Mind

The digital body has become a phonemonon that can prolong, save and make human life. Technology has been constructed to help us survive illnesses, injury and diseases. This in itself is truly amazing and previously thought impossible. Now, technology is supposedly affecting our minds. Not our brains, which technology can easily guide with pacemakers, wires and nerve endings. Our relationship with technology is becoming more and more dependant, and as humans we are becoming more lazy in our actions that technology can do easier and quicker for us, such as thinking.

As human beings we all have our own mind and free thought. Machinery is starting to adapt to this feature. Small things that we don't even think about whilst using technology show signs of technological intelligence, or artificial intelligence such as spell-check on Microsoft word, or the ''did you mean..'' tool used on Google.



Nothing will ever replace a human brain. Or so we think. It's been shown that humans only use a small amount of their entire brain capacity. As shown above, technology is being adapted to think for us. Robots is a common term often used in sci-fi films and books, however they are often not thought to be real things. There are many definitions for the world. Some people associate it with any form of machinery which moves without human support. Some people refer it to a mechanical version of a human. Robots are in fact everywhere. They are used for so many different things, and are now even becoming self controlled.






With the development of these robots, being used in factories to make things such as cars, it's not extreme to suggest they could soon be used for more personal activities.

Alan Turing is known as the father of Artificial Intelligence. He was a great computer scientist and invented a machine that could judge the intelligence of other machines, leading other scientists to wonder and suspect about the invention of an electronic brain.

Artificial Intelligence has been explored a lot in popular culture, making it a very popular theme for lots of films, books and television programmes.

• Star Wars
• Wall-E
• Big Brother 
• I Robot

While robots have shown to be mechanical versions of human, they are not yet entirely human. Obviously, they do not have all the features we do as humans, such as a beating heart, organs and flesh. Perhaps more importantly, they don't have the privilege of having free will and thought. They are always controlled by humans, such as this CHARLI robot. However humans can sometimes be controlled by machines, for example a pacemaker controls a human heart. There is always that question of what will happen if robots someone obtain free thinking and will? Could it literally mean the end of man kind being the top of the animal kingdom? Would they be able to be stopped? Although this seems somewhat ridiculous and extreme, the thought of a mechanical heart also seemed ridiculous and extreme, and that has become a common medical practice.