FUTURE POLITICS, HUMAN SECURITY AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN BEING

Conscience lives in time and its most obvious trait is the capacity for constant self modification and adaptation to new circumstances, a limitless responsiveness to new and urgent conditions of relevance. Could computers ever be conscious? This has been a thorny question with a long and tangled history. Some argue that only biological entities can be conscious while others claim that it is the functions the computer carries out that are relevant, not what it is made of.