• Masimatutu@mander.xyzOP
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    1 year ago

    Emotions being “valid” is a subjective experience (empathy) which requires percieving the other as a person. We do this with many animals because they are fundamentally very similar to us, but with robots it’s quite different. I’d say there is no objective validity here.

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      1 year ago

      Careful, thinking about this kind of stuff turned me vegan.

      Do you think it’s possible that a robot could be built that would be indistinguishable from an animal in every way? I think yes because animals (and us) are flesh based robots built through a very long process of trial and error rather than intentional design. Obviously my opinion is not at all valid if you are religious, but I don’t believe in religion.