I’ve actually written some serious treatments of whether machines can ever be people, including in my chapter in Religion and Science Fiction. The series of posters that IO9 highlighted today about droids suffering from what they described as “low self esteem” actually seem to me to depict them doing more than that, reflecting on very human questions and emotions. Take a look and see what you think. Here’s one of my favorites:
From Papers Beats Scissors.
What do you think? Will technologically-constructed machines ever think, feel, and/or ponder the meaning of existence?
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