There was an article written by Brad Darrach regarding a robot, named Shakey, which was built by The Stanford Research Institute. Shakey possessed human qualities such as reason and understanding and the article posed the question is Shakey a person? Well to answer this we must first define what a person is. Then we must ask ourselves does giving something human qualities make it a person? Finally we must ask the question do we have …showed first 75 words of 606 total…

…showed last 75 words of 606 total…haven’t so far. So to answer the question, no, Shakey is not a person. He is not human, he is not an individual, and he lacks emotion. Science is getting close, but it’s not there yet. It might be in another few years. The way technology is going it may only be a matter of months, but what you have to ask yourself is just because we can does that mean we should?