Robot friendship: Can a robot be a friend?
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Documents
- Robot Friendship: Can a Robot be a Friend
Accepted author manuscript, 315 KB, PDF document
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.
Translated title of the contribution | Robotvenskab: Kan en robot være en ven? |
---|---|
Original language | English |
Journal | International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 26-42 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISSN | 2155-5028 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
- Faculty of Science - Embodiment, Friendship, Norms, Robot, Self, Semiotics, Social Cognition
Research areas
Number of downloads are based on statistics from Google Scholar and www.ku.dk
No data available
ID: 137632712