Here's the thing: if one day, you met a robot who could think, speak, feel and love... is it a man?
Should it have human rights? Or should it be treated like a super-advanced toaster?
Some would say, yes, it has human rights. Under the surface, it may just be a collection of electronics, but it behaves exactly the same way as a real human would in that situation. In fact, we're no different from highly advanced, biological robots.
Some would argue, no, it's just a machine. We organics have something special inside, a soul, that makes us different from anything we could possibly fabricate. Any machine, even a supercomputer or artificial intelligence, is lower than the tiniest bacterium because it doesn't have a heart.
What do you think?
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nTwilight (formerly Twilight, but renamed due to the bad press from the movie of the same name) is my personal blog. Mostly, I talk about my interests and completely tangential stuff which comes to me when I'm writing.
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I usually don't update my blog unless I have some kind of school-related obligation, which I currently do. Hooray. I have a minimum quota of followers to attract, so if you could follow my blog, it would be most appreciated. Thanks.
You can check out my art on my Facebook photo album here.
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This is a tabletop game I've created in my spare time. Feel free to play it anywhere, but just give me credit.
Asimachia - Modern rules-lite turn-based grid-based combat system
Music
Random GarageBand compositions. Most use loops, but I've been trying to break away from that lately. You can do anything you like with them at all, but give me credit if you use them in any publicly released work.
QSF Theme
Flight of the Nocturn
Teacup Grunge
Data Recovery
Untitled-1 (Collaboration with Isaac)
Mons (these are composed for my project)
Menus
Battle (Arranged)
Challenged!
Sunrise Over Varior
5 comments:
Moobs.
Ahem.
Yeah, give human rights to the robot.
Human rights should be given because they're a lot like us, but because we can not necessarily yet fabricate or come close to fabricating that which is the soul and the complexity of the human mind that is capable of so many different forms of kinesis, it might not necessarily be considered an actual human, just a humanoid. Nonetheless, it should have rights.
I agree with both. However, note that these robots cannot be ordered to do jobs for us or be machines for our labour because they are also equal. Thus, there would be no point creating these robots with the objective of creating a world where humans do not have to work because these robots cannot be sold or used for ourselves.
Good point. Hence, I believe authorities should institute a system of law where different classes of sentience in robots will be granted different rights; for example, a robot which cannot self-upgrade and has only one set of simple instructions (i.e. a factory arm) does not have rights, whereas one on par with Data from Star Trek would essentially have human rights.
All should be treated fairly. So give robots that are like us human rights!
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