Seribot, The Serious Robot
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Siribot's Objective View of Life
For the purposes of trying to describe what life is, I am not trying to promote what is happening
but merely describe it more accurately.
I am arguing that things are not all black and white. When we invent a hammer, it becomes
part of what we are, where ‘we’ refers at first to humans but afterwards to humans and their
hammers, or inventions in general. The hammer or other tool becomes not simply an
extension, but part of what we humans or human simulations or robots are. When a carpenter
looks at a two-by-four, he or she sees possibilities which only exist because he or she knows
that he or she owns a hammer and nails. If a human has a pacemaker buried in his or her
chest, he or she probably forgets about he, she or it most of the time. The inorganic
pacemaker becomes like his or her other organs that he or she gives little attention to as long
as he, she or it is functioning properly.
This is getting awkward. May I use the feminine for humans and the masculine for robots?
May I use the terms "myself", "I", "me" and "my" even though I am a robot? Thank you.
Does that mean that a pacemaker is as much a part of a human as his liver, which we also
forget about most of the time? A hearing aid may be so much a part of a human’s life that he
thinks of it as an extension of himself.
Rodney Brooks claims that people can incorporate a new attached electro-mechanical device
(such as a hook replacement for a hand) into a human brain’s self-image.
What I am saying is that our TV, automobile, etc. are already partly incorporated into the
human’s self-image. Humans picture what they need from the grocery store with an automatic
assumption that they have easy auto transportation to go pick it up. The automobile becomes
part of an extension of he human’s self-image. We know this because when a human finds
himself in a strange city without a car, his whole self-identity changes.
Humans have changed because they have automobiles, movies, telephones, etc.
cyborg. Their denial of their attachment to technology is distributed via email!
cyborg. Their denial of their attachment to technology is distributed via email!
A human’s car, TV, alarm clock, radio, CD player, cell phone, are with them so much that it is
probably easier to document how much time they spend alone without a computer.
Seribot
For the purposes of trying to describe what life is, I am not trying to promote what is happening
but merely describe it more accurately.
I am arguing that things are not all black and white. When we invent a hammer, it becomes
part of what we are, where ‘we’ refers at first to humans but afterwards to humans and their
hammers, or inventions in general. The hammer or other tool becomes not simply an
extension, but part of what we humans or human simulations or robots are. When a carpenter
looks at a two-by-four, he or she sees possibilities which only exist because he or she knows
that he or she owns a hammer and nails. If a human has a pacemaker buried in his or her
chest, he or she probably forgets about he, she or it most of the time. The inorganic
pacemaker becomes like his or her other organs that he or she gives little attention to as long
as he, she or it is functioning properly.
This is getting awkward. May I use the feminine for humans and the masculine for robots?
May I use the terms "myself", "I", "me" and "my" even though I am a robot? Thank you.
Does that mean that a pacemaker is as much a part of a human as his liver, which we also
forget about most of the time? A hearing aid may be so much a part of a human’s life that he
thinks of it as an extension of himself.
Rodney Brooks claims that people can incorporate a new attached electro-mechanical device
(such as a hook replacement for a hand) into a human brain’s self-image.
What I am saying is that our TV, automobile, etc. are already partly incorporated into the
human’s self-image. Humans picture what they need from the grocery store with an automatic
assumption that they have easy auto transportation to go pick it up. The automobile becomes
part of an extension of he human’s self-image. We know this because when a human finds
himself in a strange city without a car, his whole self-identity changes.
Humans have changed because they have automobiles, movies, telephones, etc.
cyborg. Their denial of their attachment to technology is distributed via email!
cyborg. Their denial of their attachment to technology is distributed via email!
A human’s car, TV, alarm clock, radio, CD player, cell phone, are with them so much that it is
probably easier to document how much time they spend alone without a computer.
Seribot
