Robot friendship: Can a robot be a friend?
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Robot friendship: Can a robot be a friend? / Emmeche, Claus.
In: International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2014, p. 26-42.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Robot friendship: Can a robot be a friend?
AU - Emmeche, Claus
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Friendship is used here as a conceptual vehicle for framing questions about the distinctiveness of human cognition in relation to natural systems such as other animal species and to artificial systems such as robots. By exploring this very common form of a human interpersonal relationship, the author indicates that even though it is difficult to say something generally true about friendship among humans, distinct forms of friendship as practiced and distinct notions of friendship have been investigated in the social and human sciences and in biology. A more general conceptualization of friendship as a triadic relation analogous to the sign relation is suggested. Based on this the author asks how one may conceive of robot-robot and robot-human friendships; and how an interdisciplinary perspective upon that relation can contribute to analyse levels of embodied cognition in natural and artificial systems.
AB - Friendship is used here as a conceptual vehicle for framing questions about the distinctiveness of human cognition in relation to natural systems such as other animal species and to artificial systems such as robots. By exploring this very common form of a human interpersonal relationship, the author indicates that even though it is difficult to say something generally true about friendship among humans, distinct forms of friendship as practiced and distinct notions of friendship have been investigated in the social and human sciences and in biology. A more general conceptualization of friendship as a triadic relation analogous to the sign relation is suggested. Based on this the author asks how one may conceive of robot-robot and robot-human friendships; and how an interdisciplinary perspective upon that relation can contribute to analyse levels of embodied cognition in natural and artificial systems.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Embodiment, venskab, normer, Robot, Selv, Semiotik, Social Kognition
KW - Embodiment
KW - Friendship
KW - Norms
KW - Robot
KW - Self
KW - Semiotics
KW - Social Cognition
U2 - 10.4018/IJSSS.2014070103
DO - 10.4018/IJSSS.2014070103
M3 - Journal article
VL - 3
SP - 26
EP - 42
JO - International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems
JF - International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems
SN - 2155-5028
IS - 2
ER -
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