BIBFRAME Work

Title

Enchanting Robots

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Musiał, Maciej (author )

Subject

• Artificial intelligence (LCSH)
• JHB
• I21000
• Technology--Sociological aspects (LCSH)
• Y20060
• Cognitive psychology (LCSH)
• Mechatronics (LCSH)
• SOC026000 (BISACSH)
• Developmental psychology (LCSH)
• X22270
• Automatic control (LCSH)
• Y20010
• Robotics (LCSH)
• T19000

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 303.483
• LCC: HM846-851 (Status: not used by assigner) (Status: upgraded prepub)

Content

• text

Summary

This book argues that robots are enchanting humans (as potential intimate partners), because humans are enchanting robots (by performing magical thinking), and that these processes are a part of a significant re-enchantment of the "modern" world. As a foundation, the author examines arguments for and against intimate relationships with robots, particularly sex robots and care robots. Moreover, the book provides a consideration of human-robot interactions and philosophical reflections about robots through the lens of magic and magical thinking as well as theoretical and practical re-evaluations of their status and presence. Furthermore, the author discusses the abovementioned issues in the context of disenchantment and re-enchantment of the world, characterizing modernity as a coexistence of these two processes. The book closes with a consideration of future scenarios regarding the meaning of life in the age of rampant automation and the possibility that designing robots becomes a sort of new eugenics as a consequence of recognizing robots as persons.

Authorized Access Point

Musiał, Maciej. Enchanting Robots

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