Are humans just like computers?

                Are computers intelligent? Is there any difference between computers and humans? These are the questions that people sometimes wonder about. Computers are only as intelligent as humans make them to be. Humans input knowledge and software into the computers; in a way, it is almost the same as our society inputs knowledge into our brains, trains us the humans to think and to perform in the way society wants us to.

                For instance, thousands of years ago religions had a very powerful influence on people and government; people were forced to learn and to accept that there is a god governing all of us and whom we must obey. In short, religion created society’s norm back then. And as people were growing up, they were conditioned to think that there could be a high and mighty god, which controls everyone’s life. Therefore, people would react by often praying/talking to air and think they are talking to god regarding all the good and bad that happened to them.  It is same as we humans program a computer. We condition the computer to perform and react to achieve a certain desired result.

                However, there is a difference between human and computer, which is emotion. Computers do not have emotion. They are dead-hearted machines which do only what human what it to do. On the other hand, with humans, our emotions help us as individuals decide whether the knowledge that was inputted by society is right or wrong. For example, years ago, homosexuality would be seen as a sin, because human were conditioned to think that way by society/religion. Society thought that if it forced that knowledge onto humans strongly enough, people would suppress all homosexual desires. But human emotions are strong. We might be able to suppress the emotions, but we could not take the emotions away. For a homosexual person, eventually his homosexual desires will surface into his mind and that particular person would start doubting the knowledge that society has been putting into him.