期刊
NEW BIOETHICS-A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE BODY
卷 28, 期 2, 页码 168-185出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/20502877.2022.2062945
关键词
Suffering; posthumanism; sentient robot; reductive physicalism; love
资金
- Scottish Council of Human Bioethics (SCHB)
This essay discusses sentient robot (SR) research from the perspective of suffering. It explores physical, psychological, and existential suffering, arguing that they cannot be reduced to neurobiological events or replicated through algorithms. The current stage of SR research is reviewed, along with creative proposals and challenges raised by other scholars. The author then criticizes SR research, claiming it is based on a shallow understanding of suffering and unjustified philosophical presuppositions.
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, which are neither reducible to neurobiological events, nor replicable through algorithms. The current stage of SR research is then reviewed. Many creative proposals are presented, together with some philosophical and technical challenges posed by other scholars. I then offer my critique of SR research, claiming that it is based on a superficial understanding of suffering and unjustified philosophical presuppositions, namely, reductive physicalism. Without the capability to suffer, robots probably cannot love in any real sense, and no meaningful relationship may be developed between such a robot and a human. Therefore, we are probably unable to produce sentient robots that can become our companions (friends, lovers, etc.).
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