| Jdevil3 said:
1. In a world like that could you ever fall in love with an Android? Yes, as long as I'm not married or something :P 2. Would you always feel they have a "fake" personality based on trying to adjust to the new trends? Uh... Umm... I don't think I'd even think about how real their personality is. As long as I fall in love with her and she loves me too and we are happy toghether, why should I even care about thinking about meaningless stuff like that? :P If robots have their own personality, the only difference between theirs and ours would be the way we aquired it (the personality). Some say personality is kind of predetermined by genes. Let's take that as true. Now, that "base personality" we are born with can be affected by many things, changing it. Those things could be: The "environment" (Country you're born in, its culture, your social position during your life, the people you interact with and the stuff you learn from them, your school, your job, the "time" you live in (during an economical crisis, a war, a revolution, etc)) Your physical "features" (sorry, my english is crap, lol) (if you're born without a leg or have some kind of disorder, your personality will be different had you been "normal") The events you experience during your life (Someone in your family dies, you suffer an accident or stuff like that... "meaningless" events can also change your personality, too... they just don't usually impact you the same way as those "more important" events... if you get what I mean O_o) Etc (Can't bother thinking of other examples, lol)
Well, that's for humans... now... if robots have their pre-programmed Personality and can learn stuff just like humans and change their personality because of the same things humans change theirs, then there's no difference between both. One was pre-determined by genes and changed during the course of life, the other was pre-programmed and changed during the course of life. They both had a "base personality" and changed it during the course of life... there's no difference in my eyes :P 3. Would you always feel they have been "programmed" to act in this way? I will KNOW the have been programmed to act that way, but like I said before, it's kind of the same case with humans :P 4. Would you be afraid of what your "human" friends/families will think? LOL, I wouldn't care about what they think, if I love her and she loves me and we are happy toghether, we'll just get married and live our own life :P 5. Would you regret not being able to have a child? I'll just clone myself or something... But I want to have a daughter, not a boy :P so... if I clone myself I'll get a boy :S. Well... whatever :P 6. How will you make a difference between whats "real" and what isn't? Because we are all also run on a genetic code, the DNA with the 4 major bases (ATGC). Similarly these androids will be running on a code of zero's and one's... Uh... as far as I know the zero's and one's are real, too :P Besides... how can you be so sure that all this is "real"... what is "real"? O_O :P We could very well be in the Matrix xD(I'm kidding and being serious at the same time, lol) 7. In the future do you think this could actually become a serious ethical issue? By the future we mean possibly several centuries in the future...... It could become an ethical issue in less than 1 century in my opinion... but I know it will be discussed and solved very quickly and several contries will start changing their constitutions to include robots, changing penal codes (or whatever they're called in english), civil codes, etc. |
I totally agree with your second point......in a similar way we humans also adjust to our surroundings by trying to like things others like and so on.
If androids will be coded with 0's and 1's.....we are coded with A, T, G and C (the 4 main bases)...
I agree about the base personality thing too.....in many ways we would be no different than them apart from being "made by nature" instead of "man made"
I dunno about your last answer.....because RELIGION is still big in the world...not as strong as it used to be, but I can't possibly imagine the outrage religious groups and religious people would have over this issue!!










