Love Thy Robot

Cuddling up on the sofa with some popcorn and taking in a full series of the Sara Conner Chronicles got me thinking about Love....well robot love actually.

First of all its a very well done and true to Terminator 1 & 2 same style, number 3 we all want to forget about, so worth a watch.

Some thoughts I had.

Based on our current progress with technology its only a matter of time before we will get to the stage of very intelligent Robots similar to that of today's sci-fi. So knowing what we already know about intelligence and self replication and that robots could become self aware and want to have rights and be treated a certain way are we prepared to accept this or have a potential battle on our hands?

The thing is at this stage we have difficulty in accepting each other....stupidly skin colour, religious beliefs, sexual preference, nationality, region or even sports team preference all make some people hate. So some humans are not treated well or given the same rights as others. You know the story.

So lets imagine that robots will end up looking so life like and they learn to understand our emotions and could live in your house and become a friend and be indistinguishable from a human. You would not know any difference.

Is our brain dissimilar from a computer?

Are we not just the result of millions of years of programing?

Some say our body is just a machine, a vessel

What makes us human? is it our soul?

We already use animal parts for transplants, and we use mechanical parts as well, and some have even implanted electronics into the body. For sure this practice will increase the more we learn to understand the functions of body and mind.

Why after creating and allowing the process to evolve over many years would we not allow HUMAN rights for robots. OK you may say they can not reproduce so they can not sustain life. However they can rebuild, replicate, and their programing could be designed in such a way that allows them to "SIM" simulate the DNA variations that humans display.

So if you only believe in Darwinian evolution. What makes them different from us?

I look forward to seeing how robotics develops and see if we are really prepared to open that door.

Robot Laws

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.