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241. Are our Brains Computers? | Prof. Paul Bloom

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Sex Robots

I find myself taking on a slightly different character depending on who I'm talking with. And this role in this episode, when I speak to other academics, I sort of take on the role of the curious idiots. It's like a journey to knowledge through you and it's the fallibility and the vulnerability. A robot could imitate vulnerability, but I don't think it would be believable. That actually comes up in issue of sex robots. But there's a lot of lonely people in the world, men and women, who suffer from a lack of romantic and sexual contact.

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