ENGL 246 Lecture 9: May 31-Rossum's Universal Robots
7 Jul 2016
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Robot: automaton, better than humans actors, luxury. Robots as workers/labour: rossum sr. : living beings, perfection, vibrant living thing, ectoplasm. Rossum junior: efficient laborer robots, his drive is money. Mimic humans: components related to being a good worker. Organizing living matter to produce life/nature vs synthetic manner which is faster, simpler, flexible (this is substancially different) Rossum senior is about imitating nature, he wants to make people. You synthesize human beings, but they are made of a different substance. It is the production itself that is artificial as opposed to just the person. He wants to produce faster/set up for industrial production. They want to make living, intelligent working machines, not people. God is irrelevant because he knew nothing about technology, so he"s not an issue anymore. She wants to provide robots with more human attributes. This involves idea that they are lesser than humans, she wants to make them greater.
