Artificial Life Attains Sentience

          The moments after the artificially created people were brought to life, their minds were like those of newborn babies.  They are innocent, and have no perception of the world yet.  Just like the people who were held prisoner in Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”.  They could only see shadows and so their perception of the world was that it was created of shadows.  Once they were freed, they realized that those shadows were caused by something and that the world that the lived in was not what they had believed it to be.  This is exactly the same thing that happened to the newly created artificial humans.

            When babies come into this world, they have no thoughts, no memories, and no knowledge.  This state of innocence is one that is valued and smiled upon throughout the world.  Who doesn’t like babies?  This is the same mindset that people who have been artificially created have.  They have no memories, no thoughts, and no knowledge of the world that they have just become a part of.  But as they go through their lives, they learn more about the world around them and start thinking on their own.

            Most babies are taught many things by their parents.  The “parent-like” figures in the lives of these artificial people are the scientists who created them.  They teach them how to walk, talk, eat, think, and anything else that you can think of that a parent would do with their child.  As they live in this world longer, they understand the things around them and what they are there for.  They use the knowledge that they are gaining to create lives for themselves within the area which all of them are living.  They are becoming involved members of a community (even though it is a community of artificial humans).  This community might run differently than our communities today but every community has its differences.

            The path that these artificially created being had to take to make a normal life for them is a long and tough one.  But once they start understanding the world through actions, lessons, and mistakes, they will join the community and be a beneficial member of it.