Part 964 : 3/11/2013
Disobedience
I think that people feel some pleasure in disobeying, and not
accepting that you are right.
Apart from the normal disobediences which we see
in parent-children, Boss-employee situations, we even see this effect between
friends. When a friend suggests a choice, the first instinct of the other
friend is to tell an alternative suggestion, in effect not accepting the choice
of the first one. This happens 99% of the time. I think that this is human
nature.
Confronted by this fact, leaders and army commanders have to work
hard to achieve obedience from their juniors. In certain situations, this is
achieved by preventing the men from thinking too much, and forcing them to act
mechanically, by trigger words. But in a business management situation where
intelligent thinking and mental processing is very much required, this is not
possible. Hence no military obedience is possible with business managers, even
with senior employees who have well-developed thinking capability.
In personal situations, we need not take this disobedience
seriously, because in fact, it is only machines that obey our instructions 100%
of the time. Any living thing, including pets, do not do what we say, all the
time. The funny thing is when a pet does this, the owner actually feels happy.
It is against normal logic ! Obviously because by that, it shows signs of life, that it has a distinct personality !
When we design robots, to give them a lifelike behaviour, we should
make them disobey sometimes. We should make it appear that the robot sometimes
prefers to take decisions of its own, not accepting our instructions! Somehow
this makes it appear like a living thing!
So why should we get upset when grown up people or teenage children
do not obey us always ?
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