Automatic Sweethearts for Transhumanists

Robot Sex ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hauskeller
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Real Thing ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Person ◽  
As If

This chapter asks the question whether sexual and/or romantic relationships with robots could ever be as satisfying as the real thing. Three main arguments are made. First, if we assume that robots will be not be real persons and instead simply behave and act as if they are persons (“pseudo-persons”) then love and sex with them will never be as satisfying as it is with a real person. Second, if robots somehow manage to be real persons (and not just pseudo-persons), we run into problems regarding their moral status and, importantly, their freedom to choose to be our romantic partners. It is more satisfying to be loved by a real person that freely chooses to be your lover than it is to be loved by someone who is programmed to love you. Finally, it is argued that the desire for relationships with robotic persons does reveal something telling about the transhumanist desire for total autonomy and independence. The only possible way for me to become completely independent is by cutting all ties to other persons, by making my own world, uninhabited by any real persons except myself. Robotic partners may consequently be the preferred inhabitants of that transhumanist utopia.

scholarly journals BENCANA KABUT ASAP SEBAGAI DAMPAK BUDAYA KONSUMSI DALAM CERPEN “YANG DATANG DARI NEGERI ASAP”

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Dessy Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
New World ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
Real Thing ◽  
The Real ◽  
Industrial Distribution ◽  
Consumption Culture ◽  
The Creation ◽  
As If

<p class="JudulAbstrakKeyword">Literature, as a work containing facts and fiction, can obscure the conventions of realities and create new realities so that there are no visible boundaries between the real thing and the unreal thing. Fact and fiction coincide and simulate to form hyperreality. In the short story “Yang Datang dari Negeri Asap (Who Comes from the Smoky Country)” by Hary B. Kori’un, the existence of facts and fiction overlap each other. The author created the country of smoke as a fictitious world due to his contemplation on the consumption culture, which is a phenomenon in people’s lives and relates it to the haze disaster that keeps going to occur every year. The researcher sorts out facts and fiction that are interconnected in the short story to explore the creation of hyperreality using the perspective of Jean Baudrillard. As a result, the researcher found a consumption culture in the community, especially plantation entrepreneurs. The presence of a new world in a short story is a reproduction of the value of a sign or symbol that simulates as if there was a poverty scenario created by globalization through a variety of industrial distribution media to extract all potentials to benefit an established industry. Finally, consumption culture causes all aspects of life to be a commodity object because the needs that arise will always exceed the production of goods.</p>

Brain Activation Measurement of Velvet Hand Illusion Using Pocket NIRS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ohka ◽  
Y. Mitsui ◽  
H. Komura
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Relative Motion ◽  
Brain Activation ◽  
Haptic Device ◽  
Wire Mesh ◽  
Real Thing ◽  
The Real ◽  
Activation Measurement ◽  
The Brain ◽  
As If

In this research, as a different approach to the conventional one which enhances the performance with hardware of a haptic device, we adopt another approach to make the brain feel as if the person is touching the real thing via an illusion. Thus, we study Velvet Hand Illusion (VHI) which is an illusionary phenomenon concerning tactile touch. In VHI, a hexagonal wire mesh is sandwiched between both hands and rubbing the wire mesh without relative motion between both hands generates a smooth feeling, like velvet. The brain activation at this time is measured by PocketNIRS, which contains two channels measuring the bilateral prefrontal cortex. We obtained the result that the prefrontal cortex was activated to roughly two times larger when VHI occurred than when touching real velvet fabric. Since different responses can be obtained in the prefrontal cortex during brain activation between real velvet and VHI, it is possible to use pocketNIRS for the evaluation of VHI.

Where is the Real Thing? Psychoanalysis and African Mythical Narratives

1987 ◽  
Vol 27 (107) ◽  
pp. 311-327
Author(s):  
Valentin Y. Mudimbe
Keyword(s):  
Real Thing ◽  
The Real

Simulation: It's the Real Thing

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Real Thing ◽  
The Real

scholarly journals We’re Not That Choosy: Emerging Evidence of a Progression Bias in Romantic Relationships

2021 ◽  
pp. 108886832110258
Author(s):  
Samantha Joel ◽  
Geoff MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Mate Selection ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Test Phase ◽  
Relationship Development ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Relationship Initiation ◽  
Relationship Decisions

Dating is widely thought of as a test phase for romantic relationships, during which new romantic partners carefully evaluate each other for long-term fit. However, this cultural narrative assumes that people are well equipped to reject poorly suited partners. In this article, we argue that humans are biased toward pro-relationship decisions—decisions that favor the initiation, advancement, and maintenance of romantic relationships. We first review evidence for a progression bias in the context of relationship initiation, investment, and breakup decisions. We next consider possible theoretical underpinnings—both evolutionary and cultural—that may explain why getting into a relationship is often easier than getting out of one, and why being in a less desirable relationship is often preferred over being in no relationship at all. We discuss potential boundary conditions that the phenomenon may have, as well as its implications for existing theoretical models of mate selection and relationship development.

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