Sunday, October 21, 2007

Sex and marriage with robots? It could happen

Well it is a very disturbing article I have read in a while. According to my point of view, humans are gifted with an excellent organ known as ‘brain’. Human brain is god gifted with exceptional reasoning and intelligence. Emotion is the most creative function of the brain. This is one of the few characteristics which differentiate between humans and robots. Even though robots will become more human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them, still we should not fail to understand that these similarities in personality and knowledge are all programmable. We are talking about spending our lives with machines and making them our life partners. I would term it as sheer insanity because this similarity in personality and knowledge is the work of software after all. I cannot even think about acquainting my life with ‘something’ that has been programmed. And that it has no thinking and reasoning of its own. I mean two humans can have different opinions and they can argue on it to root out the differences and that’s how we can put our reasoning to work. Rather than spending our life with something which has been programmed to adjust and accommodate with us according to our thinking. That’s absolutely wrong because then every human being who will be committed in this kind of human-machine relationship will expect every other person to behave like a machine in the same adjusting manner. Human life will be a chaos!





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