First, robot has robot hugs. (while humans have human hugs) When the digital games first came out it was like talking to a new friend. You have input and you have out put. And one becomes engaged.
Thanks, Anton. I lived in Italy more than 30 years. When I arrived in 1967, they were easy about touching, and I felt comfortable, because the social context authorized this. Having moved back to the US, I've had to watch my spontaneous tendency to touch, because, as you say, we've become video robots in most social contexts, and then when we do touch, it is taken immediately as a sexual advance. What can one do to break through these acrylic shields people are carrying now?
well...we live in a self conscious age in an over sexualized culture which make us afraid of being misunderstood - and in an Im alright culture which is afraid of showing weakness. Even the tough stoical individualism that underlies our frontier colonial heritages may be a factor.
But in the end, exploitative & inauthentic touch (like all behaviors) is wrong the rest is right, and infinitely varied in how why and when. Authenticity is what counts.
I've always been about as comfortable kinesthetically as say Franz Kafka was. LOL
In spite of that, I think I'm fairly well balanced. BUT I'm only tactile with the few people who are very close to me...
I HATE facile touching. Too often it's just another marketing mode in our 21st cen. world where everything is reduced to technique rather than substance.
SO I think superficial touch is as damaging as the problems you point to in this video.
2bsirius, very important distinction about touching being misused as well as not used enough. You are like a supercomputer who's able to reply to every video ever made by Corey Anton, 0ThouArtThat0, and all other such people. :)
perhaps in our times, with our sense of self being stronger than ever (I daresay), and with the technology we use to communicate, the more touchy-feely elements might be moving to the outskirts of our social comfort zones. It is more a thing we reserve for significant others, than family and friends. Generally speaking of course, I know some wonderfully spontaneous and fearless people :)
i'll dismiss the irony and answer: SYN-ACK. heh, if you read into it, it has ac-count-ability built into it, too. silence in a MUDdy context is more awkward, too, unless one is good emoter...
They robots right now still lack the phylogeny, renewal, awareness (primitive or not), interiority to hug people for the same reasons as we do. As far as I am concerned, organic life probably has an intricate subtle energy system that has both an individual and a collective way of manifesting. Though one should view categories such as individual, collective, interior and exterior as differential but integrating poles of experience. Integrating due to the emergence-evolution of consciousness.
And this dynamic field of subtle energy exits the body, hence the small drop in weight of the body. But it is continuous. In a subtle energetic experience of consciousness, space, interiority and exteriority are in oneness, but that is just one stage of meditation.
Many people are uncomfterable with silence. I get that often. When I try to speak to someone with other means then speech they usually ask, "what?" Like something is up.
Check out Temple Grandinat and her a hug machine. That's the real world instance of an answer. Oliver Sacks has famously popularized her story.
socrates856 1 year ago
You wanna f a robot dont you weirdo.
Gargantupimp 1 year ago
First, robot has robot hugs. (while humans have human hugs) When the digital games first came out it was like talking to a new friend. You have input and you have out put. And one becomes engaged.
Israe5l 1 year ago
perhaps spread of mobile touch-screen UIs will improve the situation ;)
jogayot 2 years ago
Perhaps a compensation?
Professoranton 2 years ago
virtual sex to the rescue?-) icky silicon...
jogayot 2 years ago
@jogayot
Silicon Valley, CA would become the Robo-prostitution capital of the world.
adamkyler 2 years ago
Thanks, Anton. I lived in Italy more than 30 years. When I arrived in 1967, they were easy about touching, and I felt comfortable, because the social context authorized this. Having moved back to the US, I've had to watch my spontaneous tendency to touch, because, as you say, we've become video robots in most social contexts, and then when we do touch, it is taken immediately as a sexual advance. What can one do to break through these acrylic shields people are carrying now?
thomasmatus 2 years ago
Why do we shrink from physical contact?
well...we live in a self conscious age in an over sexualized culture which make us afraid of being misunderstood - and in an Im alright culture which is afraid of showing weakness. Even the tough stoical individualism that underlies our frontier colonial heritages may be a factor.
But in the end, exploitative & inauthentic touch (like all behaviors) is wrong the rest is right, and infinitely varied in how why and when. Authenticity is what counts.
soulfetcher 2 years ago
Great comment and useful insight.
Professoranton 2 years ago
I've always been about as comfortable kinesthetically as say Franz Kafka was. LOL
In spite of that, I think I'm fairly well balanced. BUT I'm only tactile with the few people who are very close to me...
I HATE facile touching. Too often it's just another marketing mode in our 21st cen. world where everything is reduced to technique rather than substance.
SO I think superficial touch is as damaging as the problems you point to in this video.
Touch as market ploy or duty is hypocrisy.
2bsirius 2 years ago
2bsirius, very important distinction about touching being misused as well as not used enough. You are like a supercomputer who's able to reply to every video ever made by Corey Anton, 0ThouArtThat0, and all other such people. :)
MaBu888 2 years ago
Yes, you've discovered my secret, MaBu888...
I am in fact a supercomputer using an AI auto-response program...My programming dictates that I generate and post random comments on YouTube videos.
This comment is in fact one of those responses. Nicely spotted! ¦;¬]
Before you discovered my secret, I was the odds on favorite to win the Turing Test AI contest this year. DRAT!
2bsirius 2 years ago
*British accent* - I'm afraid I'm doomed. :)
MaBu888 2 years ago
Haha love this video prof!
McGarnicle13 2 years ago
Did you see Jane Fonda in the movie, Barbarella?
theosophers 2 years ago
perhaps in our times, with our sense of self being stronger than ever (I daresay), and with the technology we use to communicate, the more touchy-feely elements might be moving to the outskirts of our social comfort zones. It is more a thing we reserve for significant others, than family and friends. Generally speaking of course, I know some wonderfully spontaneous and fearless people :)
EmergingEmergency 2 years ago
i'll dismiss the irony and answer: SYN-ACK. heh, if you read into it, it has ac-count-ability built into it, too. silence in a MUDdy context is more awkward, too, unless one is good emoter...
jogayot 2 years ago
can cat's roll their "R's" ?
clearshquarter 2 years ago
More food for thought. Thanks.
KosmicCitizen 2 years ago
Could a robot give a hug? According to Ray Kurzweil, in 25 years a robot will be able to give a hug for similar reasons as humans do it.
1PostPoMoMaN1 2 years ago
They can already be programmed to do this. "If this occurs, hug", now just add to it all the possibilities.
1PercentRDA 2 years ago
They robots right now still lack the phylogeny, renewal, awareness (primitive or not), interiority to hug people for the same reasons as we do. As far as I am concerned, organic life probably has an intricate subtle energy system that has both an individual and a collective way of manifesting. Though one should view categories such as individual, collective, interior and exterior as differential but integrating poles of experience. Integrating due to the emergence-evolution of consciousness.
1PostPoMoMaN1 2 years ago
Nice comment!
Professoranton 2 years ago
I'm just trying to be as eloquent with my brainstorming. Otherwise what I say would sound like new age bullshit. :)
MaBu888 2 years ago
And this dynamic field of subtle energy exits the body, hence the small drop in weight of the body. But it is continuous. In a subtle energetic experience of consciousness, space, interiority and exteriority are in oneness, but that is just one stage of meditation.
MaBu888 2 years ago
Many people are uncomfterable with silence. I get that often. When I try to speak to someone with other means then speech they usually ask, "what?" Like something is up.
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