Could a robot give a hug?
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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.
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You wanna f a robot dont you weirdo.
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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.
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Silicon Valley, CA would become the Robo-prostitution capital of the world.
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virtual sex to the rescue?-) icky silicon...
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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?
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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.
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perhaps spread of mobile touch-screen UIs will improve the situation ;)
jogayot 2 years ago
Perhaps a compensation?
Professoranton 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