Final paper proposal
For my final paper I would like to write about the importance of morality to humans and how a sense of self is required for this, and the inability for artificial beings to be given these qualities. I would be using the articles from weeks 11 and 12 and attempt to negate the articles from week 13 in order to show that robots can not be moral. The main objection to my paper will be about robots being able to be programmed to be moral, but I plan to show that a sense of self and others can’t be programmed, it must be developed due to its ever changing nature that is NOT random, but varies from person to person.
April 23, 2008 at 8:36 pm
This is a good topic. Be sure to consider, though, how we might try to devise a computer or robot to be self-aware and other-aware. Is that just difficult, or is it impossible, and why? Or is it just the proposals in those papers, or one in particular, that you disagree with. Focusing on a specific author and argument could be more productive than trying to challenge them all.