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 Martin family soon discovers they own a very different and …showed first 85 words of 1807 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1807 total…discovers his heart and mind both captured by Little Miss' 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.
