The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[GhylTarvoke]

The reaction doesn't matter. Animals can feel psychological pain, when for example an elephant mother lose her child. No robot would feel pains like that. It's not just about a stimulation of nervous system. Every robot can react as you developed it, but "it" wouldn't feel something, because it has no personality, no soul. Animals have souls. Robots are only scrap material.

When you ask, you are a murder when you play an ego-shooter.

I agree with you. I believe animals have "souls". But where's your proof? If your evidence isn't their reactions or the stimulation of their nervous systems, then what could your evidence possibly be? And if your intuitions have no scientific basis, then maybe sufficiently advanced robots could have souls as well.

At the moment, discussion of robot rights is just armchair speculation - but one day, it may have real consequences. That's the power of science fiction.