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Robots in Science Fiction
“One of Descartes’ students asked the master how he would know when an automaton had become a true man.
“‘When he tells me so himself,’ Descartes said.”
– “Cybernauts in Cyberspace: William Gibson’s Neuromancer” by David Porush
Robots, androids (and gynoids), and other assorted automatons have been a stable of science fiction since before it officially became science [...]
The Terror and Appeal of the Machine
Contents
Introduction
The Self vs. The Other
The Computer as Other
The Robot as Other
The TV as Other
The Other becomes a Part of the Self
Conclusion
References
Introduction
There is a thin line between pleasure and pain, so too with fear and attraction. Sherry Turkle (1984) noted that "what disturbs is closely tied to what fascinates and what fascinates is deeply rooted in [...]
Sentience, Humanity and Robots
The following essay was a paper I wrote for a class I took called “Science Fiction and American Culture.” It discusses issues brought up in Isaac Asimov’s novella Bicentennial Man, which can be found in Robot Visions. You should be able to find a copy of it at your local library, or you can purchase [...]
