Man has created many technological things throughout the years and still will in the future. One technology that has created debates though is the robot. They can look so realistic or have an appearance that makes our hearts melt and just love them no matter.
Prime examples of these kinds of robots are David and the robot teddy bear from the movie AI, R2D2 and C3PO from Star Wars, and Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I doubt that anyone would be able to not like these characters. With the example of David and the teddy, they both look so real and one wouldn't know that they were robots unless someone told them and all David wants is to be real and regain his "mother" 's love. In the case of the robots from Star Wars, even if skeptics don't see it, I believe they have personalities that shine through so even though they obviously don't look human or act like it, they still feel like "people". Finally with Marvin, his appearance is adorable and it doesn't even matter if he is grumpy all the time. He is showing personality and emotion and free will.
So obviously appearance of a robot has some effect on whether we consider them alive. I also believe that if the robot appears to have a personality and shows emotion and free will and isn't controled by some kind of remote to do these things (even if it was programmed into the robot which is different than decided every single move the robot makes) then it should be considered a person. These robots are our brain childs so of course they are going to resemble us if that was our plan.
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