Japanese Patients Shun Robot Helpers, Throwing High-Tech Future of Elder Care Into Doubt
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[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;27903013]how do you know that humans have souls?
from a reductionist viewpoint, humans are nothing more than incredibly complex carbon-based machines[/QUOTE]
From a realist viewpoint, reductionists are hypocritical for using far too many resources to sustain their life. However, cremation will provide some carbon and remove the entity from exploiting further resources in sustaining their unhealthy lifestyles.
That bearish humanoid robot is not how you make a human being comfortable when it's holding one. The real way to do so is to make a robot that is effectively a writhing mass of thorned flagellae coated in semi-human eyes, then have it whisper seductive thoughts at the human being holded.
[QUOTE=The golden;27896429]I don't know about you, but I would prefer compassionate human to a pile of cold metal and wires any day.[/QUOTE]
I dunno, most of the stories you hear about attendies at retirement homes is that they're cruel and they like to put their fags out in your face D:>
They need to take a different approach to making them look friendly.
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I say we get five decades before the coming of the cylons
[QUOTE=cat man;27897346]Of course, but give them money and they can atleast pretend to be passionate.
Robots, on the other hand, just stare into your soul with their dead eyes... watching, waiting.[/QUOTE]
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