Tag: empathy
In Some Science Contexts, “Emergence” Really Means “We Don’t Know How”
The word often permits the improbable to be considered probable for the purposes of sounding like science without providing any.
Empathy — The Foundation of Human Exceptionalism?
If I gave you 15 seconds you could come up with a pat evolutionary just-so story to account for this, speculating on what reproductive advantage it serves.
Dr. Geoffrey Simmons on Human Design — and Re-Creating It in Robots
Will robots ever experience empathy or other feelings, or develop a genuine sense of humor?
Biologist Nathan Lents: Beauty in Error
He has a different take on imperfection, one more optimistic than one might expect from someone who writes about what’s wrong with us.
Rights Are Not about “Feelings”
Thomas Hills argues that we will accord human-style rights to robots because we will come to empathize with them.