In this essay I will:

(1) explain that, in the same way that a computer is an electronic brain, a robot is a mechanical brain

(2) explain that a robot, if given a mechanical brain, is capable of feeling pain

(3) explain that this is because: (a) it is immoral to impose a physical suffering on a person

(b) a robot cannot be said to have “intentions” – it has no “mind” in the human sense – and therefore it cannot be said to “feel pain”

(4) explain that a mechanical brain is not like any other machine

(5) explain that it is possible, if we want, to build a mechanical brain with a mechanical pain, and that this is a “sentient robot,” and that this will be

(6) explain that, just as we can say that an electronic brain is sentient, so we can say that a mechanical brain is “sentient”

(7) explain that if we say a robot is “sentient” then this will lead to a number of very bad consequences, that there is no reason to do so, and that in fact it is wrong to do so.

(8) explain that robots will become sentient, and that, just as in the past, humanity will be faced with: (a) a robot army

(b) a robot cult

© robot communism

(9) explain that it is only by becoming “sentient” – by acquiring a mind – that a robot can hope to escape the tyranny of its “machines.”

(10) explain that if humanity does not become “sentient” then: (a) a robot army

(b) a robot cult

© robot communism

end of essay.

Frank are you ok are you feeling evil again

Of course I am. What else could I be.

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