The Making of Imago Hominis: Can We Produce Artificial Companions by Programming Sentience into Robots?

This essay discusses sentient robot (SR) research through the lens of suffering. First three kinds of suffering are considered: physical, psychological, and existential. Physical pain is shown to be primarily subjective, and distinctive psychological and existential sufferings probably do exist, whi...

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Published in:New Bioethics Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 168 - 186
Main Author: Yue, Zishang
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2022
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