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Can a Robot be a Person?
Bicentennial Man
Title: Can a Robot be a Person?
Bicentennial Man
Category: Social Sciences / Philosophy
Details: Words: 1807 | Pages: 7.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Can a Robot be a Person?
Bicentennial Man
Can a robot be a person? Or should it be said, can Andrew be a person? Andrew is simply NDR-114: an androgynous robot designed to handle household chores, child education, servant work, and anything else as ordered by humans, the Martin family. It only got its name when Little Miss stumbled over the word "android", and mistaken it as something else and said "Andrew" instead. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the …showed first 75 words of 1807 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1807 total…grand daughter, Portia who resembles Little Miss in when she was young. It is his growing emotion for Portia that encourages Andrew to cover the lines between human and machine. He wanted to die like human-person die. He did not want to live forever; he wanted to die because of his aging. He got his wish. He started off as a simple household robot: an androgynous robot then ended off as the first Bicentennial Man.
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