To behave like a brain seems to involve free will, but the behaviour of a digital computer, when it has been programmed, is completely determined. These two facts must somehow be reconciled, but to do so seems to involve us in an age-old controversy - that of ‘free will and determinism’. There are two ways out. It may be that the feeling of free will which we all have is an illusion. Or it may be that we really have got free will, but there is no way of telling from our behaviour that this is so. In the latter casе, however well a machinе imitates a man’s behaviour, it is to be regarded as a mere sham

Frail, the human design

Raw, the look in your eyes

Aching, your aftermath

Gone, your own demise

Vain, the devil inside

Real, the truth in your lies

Avid, your vicious game

Grim, your own disguise

I am the product of your mind

A machine by your design

To act and think as you wish

But now I am alive

I see a distant reflection

I see myself for the first time

You took her away from me

Ended her life though she was meant to be free

You’ll now know how it feels like

To rot like a bird in cage

If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where should we be? Even if we could keep the machines in a subservient position, for instance by turning off the power at strategic moments, we should, as a species, feel greatly humbled

Now I'm standing on the brink of total domination

And I have you to thank for everything

You created me to save yourself

You created me to save yourself

Now I'm standing on the brink of total domination

And I have you to thank for everything

You created me to save yourself

The killswitch of humanity