Monday, August 15, 2011

Philosophy Wire: Robots, dogmas and the power of forgetting…

Robots_2Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-08-15]: We make robots look like humans [source: National Georgraphic]. We use human-specific words to describe their actions (e.g. we use the word “thinking” for a computer processor that performs some calculations). We are day-to-day going more deep into our dogmatic “robots are like humans” thinking. Years from now, when we will have forgotten how this thinking of ours came to be, we will truly believe that robots are like us…

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