“Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.”

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Materialist Thomas Hobbes once stated that “human beings are in effect just complicated machines”, I disagree with that because unlike machines, humans are having a lot of factors to them that make them unpredictable whereas even the most complicated ones have predictable behaviors,. While humans behave as per their consciousness, machines just perform as they are taught and the most obvious reason is human emotion. This essay will be further expanding on ideas which will be contradicting Thomas Hobbes theory of human machines.

“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.”
Roger Ebert The main thing that makes humans, unlike machines is our emotions, unlike machines emotions are the very core of our being even though our brain makes chemicals that allow us to feel emotions, but that does not define what emotions are. Emotions are what make us weak and also make us strong. A mother’s love for their child can make her cry when they have to live apart for a prolonged period. Again, even the weakest of the weak might rise to the occasion and give a valiant fight with the strongest mass to save his beloved from any form of harm. A machine no matter how complicated cannot use emotions the way a human does, if it to be to keep a memory or even shape their being therefore it is invalid to say humans are complicated machines.

“While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.”

-Stephen Hawking
The one thing that every machine has in common no matter how simple or brain numbingly complicated it will always be one thing: predictable. No matter how well built a machine is it will always be predictable, that is another thing that makes humans, unlike machines because is history has proven anything is that humans are anything but predictable. For an example an inventor will know exactly how his creation will react to certain things like viruses or someone spilling water on it, but a psychiatrist will have worked with a patient for many years and will still not know how a patient will react to certain stimuli. A human, unlike a machine human can choose the way they want to act, whereas a machine will only act the way their creator wants it to. Another example would be a child and an iPhone, a parent may try to raise their child to be a morally upstanding citizen, but ten years down the road the child may take a turn for the unpleasant completely blindsiding the parent and in the case of the iPhone Steve jobs created to do certain things and they will always do those things and will never do something that was not in Steve jobs blueprint.

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

Elbert Hubbard
The biggest thing that stands in the way of Thomas Hobbes theory of being correct is our very being. Machines are things that can be defined by science and for the most part humans can somewhat be defined by science, but the one thing science cannot explain about humans is our souls, our soul cannot be defined by science, it is something that makes us who we are, it shapes our passions, our ideas even the way we feel and the most important part our ingenuity. The quote above states that a machine can do the job of ordinary men, but never the work of an extraordinary one, a statement that is true because our ideas, our beliefs and our passions all come from our soul. It allows to create extraordinary things that no machine can ever hope to achieve because a human can achieve things with their own power, whereas a machine can only do things that they are taught.

In conclusion humans can in no way be called complicated machines because machines can be easily understood whereas humans cannot. Even though Thomas Hobbes theory had some fair points it only covered things from a materialistic view and but it didn’t factor in the unpredictability of humans nor our ability for ingenuity which is the reason why I disaggre with his theory .

Aaron Thompson
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Abstract
This essay will discuss the Thomas Hobbes theory of humans being complicated machines, in the essay I will be discussing from a negative standpoint disagreeing with his theory. Mainly because there are too many factors about human existence that can hardly be called machine, “Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.”

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Materialist Thomas Hobbes once stated that “human beings are in effect just complicated machines”, I disagree with that because unlike machines, humans are having a lot of factors to them that make them unpredictable whereas even the most complicated ones have predictable behaviors,. While humans behave as per their consciousness, machines just perform as they are taught and the most obvious reason is human emotion. This essay will be further expanding on ideas which will be contradicting Thomas Hobbes theory of human machines.

“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.”
Roger Ebert The main thing that makes humans, unlike machines is our emotions, unlike machines emotions are the very core of our being even though our brain makes chemicals that allow us to feel emotions, but that does not define what emotions are. Emotions are what make us weak and also make us strong. A mother’s love for their child can make her cry when they have to live apart for a prolonged period. Again, even the weakest of the weak might rise to the occasion and give a valiant fight with the strongest mass to save his beloved from any form of harm. A machine no matter how complicated cannot use emotions the way a human does, if it to be to keep a memory or even shape their being therefore it is invalid to say humans are complicated machines.

“While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.”

-Stephen Hawking
The one thing that every machine has in common no matter how simple or brain numbingly complicated it will always be one thing: predictable. No matter how well built a machine is it will always be predictable, that is another thing that makes humans, unlike machines because is history has proven anything is that humans are anything but predictable. For an example an inventor will know exactly how his creation will react to certain things like viruses or someone spilling water on it, but a psychiatrist will have worked with a patient for many years and will still not know how a patient will react to certain stimuli. A human, unlike a machine human can choose the way they want to act, whereas a machine will only act the way their creator wants it to. Another example would be a child and an iPhone, a parent may try to raise their child to be a morally upstanding citizen, but ten years down the road the child may take a turn for the unpleasant completely blindsiding the parent and in the case of the iPhone Steve jobs created to do certain things and they will always do those things and will never do something that was not in Steve jobs blueprint.

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

Elbert Hubbard
The biggest thing that stands in the way of Thomas Hobbes theory of being correct is our very being. Machines are things that can be defined by science and for the most part humans can somewhat be defined by science, but the one thing science cannot explain about humans is our souls, our soul cannot be defined by science, it is something that makes us who we are, it shapes our passions, our ideas even the way we feel and the most important part our ingenuity. The quote above states that a machine can do the job of ordinary men, but never the work of an extraordinary one, a statement that is true because our ideas, our beliefs and our passions all come from our soul. It allows to create extraordinary things that no machine can ever hope to achieve because a human can achieve things with their own power, whereas a machine can only do things that they are taught.

In conclusion humans can in no way be called complicated machines because machines can be easily understood whereas humans cannot. Even though Thomas Hobbes theory had some fair points it only covered things from a materialistic view and but it didn’t factor in the unpredictability of humans nor our ability for ingenuity which is the reason why I disaggre with his theory .