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Beyond Human: Can a Robot Be a Person?

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Part 7 of 9. As robots begin to move among us, how will we regard them: as property like automobiles, or as individuals with rights and responsibilities? Can a thing be a person?

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  • we already have enough people on earth why would we wanna be adding fake ones?

  • Robotics designer AKA Virgin for life

  • If humans can be made in a lab, scientists use God's recipe.

  • god cares about humans, not machines. Even if robots look human, they are still OBJECTS

  • fully humanoid robots will probably cost as much as a desktop computer by 2030

  • @almad4it Right. Another example of that is people saying aliens coming to our planet.. Why would they?

  • we can't live with ourselves nevermind with bloody robots too.

  • I want to be an AI

  • @GatameOne Humans don't live as long as machines due to a biological 'planned obsolesence' - evolutionary theory says that humans don't need to live beyond 35. Humans also have self-repair systems, so they constantly replace their own parts - like a machine.

    A machine of sufficient AI complexity should be able to replicate emotions. Human MRI scans enable us to study and even predict which 'processors' are active in the brain during any given emotion - so the soul is only a metaphor.

  • @Grymbaldknight True,I was using dead to describe the robots, im going to say lifeless.Although look at what it take for a human to live longer compared to a robot that just needs repairs there is still a difference robots dont need to be frozen to live longer. I think the real question is what makes us human? I'm starting to think it's possibly a soul or emotions to feel pain or really to be mortal and learn lessons on morals for after death. Gasterobots are equal to a car ran on biodiesel..

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