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La convivencia con los cyborgs y los robots: Consideraciones filosóficas, ético-morales y sociopolíticas
Vives-Rego, José; Mestres i Naval, Francesc
Universitat de Barcelona
In this work, we present the cultural evolution that has allowed to overcome many problems derived from the limitations of the human body. These limitations have been solved by a"cyborization" process that began since early anthropogenesis. Originally, it was envisioned to deal with some diseases, accidents or body malfunctions. Nowadays, augmentations improve common human capabilities; one of the most notable is the increase of brain efficiency by using connections with a computer. A basic social question also addressed is which people will and should have access to these augmentations. Advanced humanoid robots (with human external aspect, artificial intelligence and even emotions) already exist and consequently a number of questions arise. For instance, will robots be considered living organisms? Could they be considered as persons? Will we confer the human status to robots? These questions are discussed. Our conclusions are that the advanced humanoid robots display some actions that may be considered as life-like, yet different to the life associated with living organisms, also, to some extend they could be considered as persons-like, but not humans.
2013-06-27
-Ciborgs
-Robots
-Ètica
-Cyborgs
-Robots
-Ethics
(c) Vives-Rego, José et al., 2012
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Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Políticos y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano
         

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