94 - Robot Friendship and Hatred
Philosophical Disquisitions
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The Relationship Between Alfred and the Rumour
i think many of us have similar emotional reactions and attachments to a variety of things and entities beyond rebotic devices. From my perspective, there's nothing intrinsically silly about your emotional responses to alfred. But that being said, i do not think that the fact that you have these emotional responses and attachments towards alfred is enough to show that alfred is your friend, for example. So as we begang to discuss later on, i think that there are certain criteria for friendship that must be met in order for x to be your friend. And i do notThink that these criteria are met in the case of alfred the rumber. I'm happy when he's on screen. I
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