subject: Emotional Complexity Of Robots [print this page] Sophisticated androids will make for some very unusual relationships in the future. While they will be presumably incapable of bonding to us in a true spiritual sense, they will excel at mimicking it. And some of us will certainly bond strongly with them, which will, in the end, ultimately lead to terrible disappointment and loneliness in many cases of human-android attachments. But perhaps this danger will be buffered by the fact that androids will certainly be owned and not free; you'd have to buy one though I suppose one clever enough could 'pirate' one.
