ROBOSAPIEN

Femisapien meets Robosapien ???

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The Robosapiens

• New species? New merged species?

1.TRANSCEND CLASSICAL DICHOTOMIES IN BRAIN AND MIND STUDIES, NOTABLY BRAIN/MIND, BRAIN/BODY, MIND/BODY;2. TRANSCEND TRADITIONAL DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES IN BRAIN AND MIND STUDIES, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CASE THE BIOLOGICAL, NEURO-, & SOCIAL SCIENCES.

Pathways to and forms of a new species/species merger

KEVIN WARWICK

EMERGING CYBORGS

DANCING WITH ROBOTS

David Levy

"Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners,"

• Levy conjectures that robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them, and even marry them.

Men & Fembots

A Platonic relationship with a robot girlfriend

Robot Boyfriend???

• Zettai Kareshi (or Absolute Boyfriend)

• Women and their robot boyfriends

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Dynamic Brain

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KismetKismet

DR. CYNTHIA BREAZEAL

KISMET’S CREATOR

KISMET & “’MOMMY”

Kismet as Mr. or Mrs. Rogers?Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 –

February 27, 2003) was an American educator, Presbyterian minister, songwriter,

author, and television host. Rogers was most famous for creating and hosting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968–2001), which featured his gentle, soft-spoken personality

and directness to his audiences.

Or Kismet as Nietzsche or Virginia Woolf???

FROM ROBOTS WITH RAT BRAINS …FROM ROBOTS WITH RAT BRAINS …

• Cultured neurons from rats are placed onto a Cultured neurons from rats are placed onto a multi-electrode array -- a dish with multi-electrode array -- a dish with approximately 60 electrodes which pick up the approximately 60 electrodes which pick up the electrical signals generated by the cells. electrical signals generated by the cells. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Reading)Reading)

……TO RATS WITH ROBOT BRAINS?TO RATS WITH ROBOT BRAINS?

Robot With A Biological BrainRobot With A Biological Brain

Asimo and family

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…and do less benign or wildly different futures await our progeny?

Earth Trek, thenext generation?

IS MY BODY A ROBOT THAT MY BRAIN INHABITS?

• ROBOTS ‘R’ US?