“What is Life?” Evolution of Robots is Causing Scientists to Question


	“What is Life?” Evolution of Robots is Causing Scientists to Question

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7-1-2008 8:20 PM

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7-3-2008 5:25 AM

jelly00

Hard to believe. Robots are robots can they experience emotions??? of course not

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 There is ongoing debate about what constitutes life.
Synthetic bacteria for example, are created by man and yet also alive.
Some go so far as to say that robot “emotions” may already have
occurred—that current robots have not only displayed emotions, but in
some ways have experienced them.
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Machines,” and former director of M.I.T.’s Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,  “Robots are made of different
sorts of components than we are — we are made of biomaterials; they are
silicon and steel — but in principle, even human emotions are
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