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This 3 page paper uses readings by Henig (“The Real Transformers”) and Hanlon (“Can an Animal Fall in Love?”) to discuss the ways in which we distinguish animals from machines. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Transformers") and Michael Hanlon ("Can an animal fall in love?" as a springboard for discussion. Discussion The Henig article is a long piece that explores the creation of robots and
how they interact with their creators and other visitors. Henig meets a number of robots, always in a laboratory setting, and is impressed by the fact that they seem to
truly interact with humans (2007). Upon closer inspection, however, it becomes apparent that even when a robot really appears to be responding to, or interacting with, a human, in actual
fact it is compiling a number of complex and sophisticated programs in order to seem as if it is really aware of itself and others (Henig, 2007). Henig writes
that we are all machines of one kind or another, but that doesnt seem particularly convincing, especially when in another example she writes that some of the robots now being
built "come equipped with the very abilities that humans have evolved to ease our interactions with one another: eye contact, gaze direction, turn-taking, shared attention" (Henig, 2007). But these are
machines and they are programmed; "programmed to learn the way humans learn, by starting with a core of basic drives and abilities and adding to them as their physical and
social experiences accrue" (Henig, 2007). As a result of the sophistication of the programs, people "respond to the robots social cues almost without thinking, and as a result the robots
give the impression of being somehow, improbably, alive" (Henig, 2007). By they are not alive, and the question of their ability to think and feel in the same way humans
do is uncertain. Were clearly many years away from the sophistication of an android like Mr. Data; were not even close to a robot with a fraction of that ability
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