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| Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds | 
 enlarge | Author: David Mcfarland
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 31045
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 019921929X
Dewey Decimal Number: 153
EAN: 9780199219292
Publication Date: February 28, 2008
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Will we ever understand what's on our robot's minds? June 14, 2008
Plenty of people have shone their light over the question of thinking machines. As a zoologist David McFarland succeeds in getting a fresh angle at the subject, however, as he explores the triangle of humans minds, animals and robots in a systematic way.
Laudably, mr McFarland does not set to his task by ploughing through the work of his predecessors in the field. In stead he focusses on case studies to make his points. As it happens the way humans look at robots depends more on how we see ourselves rather than what the robot is actually capable of doing. Ultimately, we should realise that robots and animals are so different from us that we can never objectively resolve whether their 'mental' capacities are comparable to ours.
This will probably not be the most original book you have ever read, but it is a very accessible introduction into the question of alien minds. Still, given the abstract level of thinking, this is at points a fairly difficult book. That sould not deter those interested in the future of robotics, though, as mr McFarland always succeeds in winding things up at the end of the chapter.
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