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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Whether or not you're religious, it's a basic human instinct to feel apprehensive of anything that's different. There's nothing in our wiring that prepares us to accept things that act like humans but aren't, especially something as unnatural as a machine. This would just be amplified by religion; there are a number of ways just the existence of an android could be considered blasphemy. It's artificial "life," so we're playing god. They're "soulless." They're made of science.
I think they would be the next "abomination" shift. Every time we encounter something new we immediately decide it is somehow evil, because it does not fit into our version of the universe. We have to rearrange things around the new information, and it's easier to just dismiss the new thing as bizarre or backwards, rather than make the effort to understand it. Back in the day people were convinced people of color were somehow inherently lesser, nowadays it's homosexual people or people with gender difficulties, and if we get far enough for them to be around I think it'll be bots in that position. Although, in the other cases the targets were at least human. The churches tried to convert them, or save their souls. Would they even bother with a machine that didn't have one, using the traditional definition of a soul? If you act and feel like a human should you be treated like one?
People are already afraid of machines. My grandmother won't have a computer in her home because she thinks the government will blow it up. I have a friend who won't get a phone or drive a car because she believes all technology is a ploy to destroy humans. People with progressive prosthetics are seen as strange, and we have already seen at least one unprovoked attack against one of the only stereotypical "cyborgs" on the planet. Just think of the massive cruelties we've displayed against other humans. How would we handle sentient machinery?
This is all theoretical, mind you. The technology and programming necessary for a full fledged android like we see in the movies is still out of reach for now and probably will be for a long time. I'm just curious as to what people think about this sort of thing.