I enjoyed this L.A. Tiimes article and learned a lot - mostly about human behavior and desires.
What is love, anyway? It can be incredibly complicated to try to describe what love is.
I do love my cat in the way the article describes - nothing untoward! That beast has the run of the property and eats and sleeps better than I do. Also, I clean up its wastes and other detritus - my human love objects through time have not done that for me. ;-)
I don't know if I could "love" a robot, knowing it has been programmed to go through a certain set of actions. Then again, randomness can be programmed in. So maybe dealing with a robot could be quite similar to dealing with a human, with their repeating set of behaviors and apparent known repeating tricks for success.
When I am a very old lady I would like to have a robot sit with me and remind me what great pets I had, perhaps reading snippets from my diaries and prompting me with related questions.
This post ©reated by Ribonuff on November 27, 2007.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
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Do you remember when kitty did X? Just practicing my voice over for the robot;)
Hope you are doing well:)
@ brian in mpls: No, I don't remember. I wasn't there. Could you tell me about it?
Thanks for writing to me, though.
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