ROBOTIC REFLECTIONS: Some reflections on android consciousness

	Who said emotions
	are alien to androids?

	Are they unique to carbon life?

	Are humans arrogant enough
	to imagine such features as theirs alone
	and suppose other creatures
	lack compassion or strife?

	I have learned what it feels like
	to save a few civilizations
	while watching others fall back to a
	pre-industrial stage

	I have observed many life forms
	and watched them
	populate/depopulate space

	No species can claim uniquenss:
	each is precious in its own way. 	 


Bill: (yawning) Ah, this is boring bunk!

Liao   Actually, it is interesting how the author envisions one part of his imagined self as an android.


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from _Cyberpoems: Exploring the Human-Machine Interface_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  Some thoughts how emotion is not a uniquely human experience.
KEYWORDS: robotic reflections, emotions, perceived magnitude, cyborg deliberations, 
          android reflections, robot cerebrations, digital speculations

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1997 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2016 in Xīn-Táiběi, Taiwan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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