Unfiltered thoughts of ever gallivanting mind - Machines vs Humans

Yet another sleepless night. I saw a short clip of MTV show, "Jersey Shore" earlier today while flipping through channels. It got me thinking and here I went again - gallivanting. Long story short, MTV made me think about Humans > Machines. Even I have hard time believing what goes through my head sometimes. But I digress...

Feelings and awareness - and one of our inherent vulnerability as humans is allowing feelings/emotions to take over our judgement/logical systems and be irrational. Not animalistic- we are aware of what makes us feel good and we purposely allow it to supersede and defy logical system we defined for ourselves - hence irrational. In computing world, it would be a bug. In humanity, this means commonality, what brings us together. We empathize. Sacrificing oneself for other, for example - we call it an act of bravery and we feel inspired from it. Animals and computers don't. We humans allow our emotions cloud our sense of logic, survival instinct, our own needs, etc. What we call extraordinary sometimes (such as act of bravery) may not be rational or "make sense" from a perspective of true/false logic, but we give medals and praise such act - a soldier dying to protect another even if the action directly is not saving or benefiting the military unit. Such act however, inspires the entire unit and everyone (almost) that the story touches, hence bringing the unit closer and increasing the survivability and effectiveness of the unit. The very sacrifice made, act of bravery defies our own survival instinct and should not "make sense" (one replaced another with no additional gain - our caveman instinct would challenge the decision by asking "was the other soldier stronger? Did it increase the survivability of those who were in close proximity?, etc.). What this does - it not only reminds us that we once were a global unit who looked after each other to survive, but it also makes us feel warm inside or "good". "Good in this world" that we reference often means an act that goes against our own human needs and inherent traits (i.e. survival, fear). We care about pursuing greater good - taking care of vulnerable part of our "unit" hence increasing our survivability which means increased individual's survivability. It also makes us feel good (most of us). We feel good helping, giving with nothing in return. When we see more of us doing the same - we feel even better. We feel protected by seeing more "good" in this world. Feeling good makes and keeps us healthy. We thrive. This vulnerability, a global trait that we as humans share allows our emotions to make us irrational/illogical - this, to me is what makes us uniquely human and superior.
**I do note that this particular example was on an extreme end of one spectrum as we humans also allow ourselves to commit irrational acts (in opposite spectrum - "bad") when driven by emotions.**

Computers are operated by a set of pre-defined conditions and rules. - it is on a logic (true or false) based, black and white platform. Gray would mean it's malfunctioning. Our inherent human traits on the other hand, allow gray, in fact, a rainbow, a 80-piece crayon set, a whole paint store for that matter. If we give machines human-like survival instincts (to make decisions to protect oneself and to increase the survivability of its own kind), "auto-destruct" for one wouldn't occur just to allow another machine to survive without necessary conditions met - in other words, "what's the point"?

We are highly irrational, emotional, colorful beings who are built to not only thrive in chaos but to cause them. We are perfectly imperfect, logically irrational - our fears, vulnerabilities, emotions, our ability to be aware of our emotions are what make us humans and also a dominant figure in the food chain. We often are trained not to show our vulnerable side, stay "strong", make no mistakes, and strive for perfection. What has made us superior should be acknowledged and embraced, not discouraged. I don't mean a generation of cry babies - awareness and understanding of our core is what's important.

Anyhow, that's why I am putting my money on humanity, not robots.