Robotic Bodies and the Kairos of Humanoid Theologies.
In the not-too-distant future, robots will populate the walks of everyday life, from the manufacturing floor to corporate offices, and from battlefields to the home. While most work on the social implications of robotics focuses on such moral issues as the economic impact on human workers or the eth...
| Publicado en: | Sophia Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 663 - 677 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=141726380&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 141726380 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00381527 3OR0 jtl: Sophia issn: 00381527 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2019 vid: 58 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 141726380 10.1007/s11841-017-0628-3 ppf: 663 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 520KB tig: atl: Robotic Bodies and the Kairos of Humanoid Theologies. aug: au: McBride, James affil: Liberal Studies, New York University, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, 10003, New York, NY, USA su: Jesus Christ Robot programming Social impact Religious communities Robotics Theology Environmental ethics Lutherans Catholic identity sug: subj: Jesus Christ Robot programming Social impact Religious communities Robotics Theology Environmental ethics Lutherans Catholic identity keyword: AI Biofundamentalist Blood sacrifice Christ Death Humanoid Johannine theology Logos Marriage Progressive Robots Self-awareness Sexual Uncanny Valley ab: In the not-too-distant future, robots will populate the walks of everyday life, from the manufacturing floor to corporate offices, and from battlefields to the home. While most work on the social implications of robotics focuses on such moral issues as the economic impact on human workers or the ethics of lethal machines, scant attention is paid to the effect of the advent of the robotic age on religion. Robots will likely become commonplace in the home by the end of the twenty-first century as nannies and caretakers, particularly for young children. As a consequence, parents will want to be assured that robots will instruct their children in their values, based upon the moral teachings of their religious tradition. Consequently, parents will need robots programmed with appropriate religious software, installed by corporations but approved by their religious communities, e.g., Catholic robots, Muslim robots, and Lutheran robots. If, as expected, robots will acquire the capacity to engage in independent reasoning, believers will want to incorporate their robots within their religious communities to influence the evolution of robotic religious views. The Robotic Age will therefore present basic theological challenges. If robots simulate human personalities, desires, and fears, can religious communities tailor their doctrine, rituals, and institutions to accommodate these new "converts"? In short, can religion generate "soulless" theologies for the non-human? The Robotic Age promises a challenge unlike any other in the history of religious traditions. Biofundamentalists will undoubtedly resist revolutionary changes in theology, but for many people of faith, it will be difficult to resist appealing to those who appear and act strikingly like human beings. This paper poses questions and entertains speculation about those theological challenges, particularly in Christianity, which believers will face, e.g., concepts of the soul, blood sacrifice and redemption, marriage, and death. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Sophia is a copyright of Springer, 2019. All Rights Reserved. item: Sophia holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2019 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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