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Robots and love
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 15 Sep 2011, 11:13 ---The first problem is to rigorously define love, after three thousand years spent bickering over how to define it colloquially.
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I propose bypassing that question by asking "Would we call it love if a human did it?". The definition problem appears on both sides of the equation, so just cancel it out.
EDIT, not quite relevant to today's comic:
Is it wrong to neglect a robot? Do they suffer from unrequited love?
Carl-E:
"That's alright, I'll just sit here in the corner and calculate a few more decimal places of pi..."
Is it cold in here?:
You can't get jolted by simulated lightning. Therefore, if you're lying on the ground twitching with your hair on fire, it was real lightning.
If you get all the effects of love from a robot, is that real love?
The glaring flaw in that line of reasoning can be captured by asking "Did ELIZA offer real compassion?".
jwhouk:
To some, yes. To others, no.
Is it cold in here?:
Do AnthroPCs and their humans ever drift apart?
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