There are many posts on these forums about love, what is love etc. There are also many discussions about androids, what they are, do they have emmotions etc?
I recently read an article titled “could i love an android” which i found quite interesting. It triggered a discussion point in my mind, which more specifically centered around the question “Could my girlfriend love an android version of myself?”
I was wondering what everyone else thinks? Could your partner love an android version of yourself? In personal terms or in a hypothetical situation, depending on ur current status.
Ive thought about this quite a bit and Im sure your’ll agree a lot of the arguments come done to “what exactly do you mean by android version of yourself”, and I’d be interested to leave this open to your imaginations to avoid dictating the discussion too much.
Would this andriod be an actual human-being, or a highly-advanced cyborg or robot, etc.?
And, I think that most (although certainly not everyone) people love themselves to one degree or another (save for those who have suicidal-tendencies).
And, you could never love your android-self as much as you love your real-self.
Love for one’s self is innate; love for another must be developed.
I suppose what i meant more explicitly was (assuming you had a girlfiiend/partner), could you love an android version of them? Either in their absence or otherwise?
I guess what Im thinking about really is ‘what is it that makes humans so dependant to realism’. I asked my girlfriend the question about whether she cold love an android version of me and her immediately simple response was “no because it wouldnt really be you”. I wonder why humans have a fascination for everything to be real? If i sent an android version of myself on a date with my girlfriend would she be able to tell the difference?
It does as u say boil down to what is this android, how simillar would it be to the human version of myself, but taking that to mean whatever you will, I wonder if a humans ability to love does in some respect depnd on what is real or what we hold to be surreal or immitated? Could an artificial being ever truly prove itself to be ‘real’ in the eyes of humans enough for us to love it as we ‘supposedly’ love each other?
People often argue that love comes from ‘doing’ rather than ‘being’.
If this is true, then should we not judge an artificial machine on what it does rather than what it is (i.e not real).
Just a few thoughts, very interested to hear what anyone else things, this seems like a great forum
Im quite disappointed that no one has any thoughts on this subject Im really interested to have a discussion on whether you guys think you could ever love an android or not?
There was an episode of futurama where you could purchase celebrity androids as a love partner. Fry chose Lucy Lu and subsequently fell in love with her, beliving her to be the real thing. It really made me wonder about whether that could ever really happen?
Humans seem dependant on realism, perhaps so long as it seems ‘real’ then the emmotional attatchment and feelings are possible, but as soon as the element of reality has been uncovered these feelings, especially ‘love’ become dampened. Is ‘reality’ therefore a key ingredient to being in love?
Does anyone agree/disagree? lets get some discussion going
I guess if he never knew it was an android he could.
Might not feel the same in bed though and since that’s what it all boils down to, who knows. Depends on how great the android is in bed. If he’s awesome then the love might be even stronger!
But surely ‘real’ love, if we can call it such a thing, should not be based on your performance in bed ??
Of course there is always a physical aspect to love, the chemistry, lust, sex etc but assuming that that these are not the MOST important aspects, which i think is fair to say when we are talking about ‘true love’ would u still be able to love an android for what it is?
I guess there are many morals issues here, could man ever love machine as much as fellow man? Could man ever truly love something he has created more than he loves himself? Could an android make you fall in love with it if you never really knew it was an android (hypotetically of course). I think these are the real issues.
But i do agree in some ways that if someone turned round and said “here is an android version of britney, she is geneticaly the same as the real britney, the only difference being she was artificially created” you probably wouldnt care much
But by your standards, if sex wit ha human were bad then you would not love him or her so what is the difference between the human and the android?
What I’m getting at (u seem to have missed the point, maybe my bad phrasing), is, that human kind obviously has the capacity to truly love one another be it a friend, family member of loved one. Could a human ever truly feel this love for an artificial creation? Thats what i mean
haha, I dont think I could love an android but i could make a sex buddy out of one. To love one would be like taking care of it and stuff and why would i do that when i could just turn it off. But of course if the robot was programmable to be the greatest, most perfect and the most attractive woman in the world for a man then it might be more tempting to marry one.
Its possible, very possible. There are people out there in love with there pocket pussy and inflatable dolls.
Thats a really good point, u could just turn it off! Also if you bored of its personality, its characteristics or even its looks, you could simply upgrade it? Perhaps this would make you ‘love it more’, but if you could so easily dispose of or willfully choose to change soething, can you really be said to be ‘in love with it’? If a girl who is exactly the same as my girlfriend came along with bigger boobs, sure it would be tempting to ‘SWAP’ but i dont think most people would, i wouldnt because I totally love my girlfriend. Although someone may be “the same but better” it wouldnt be her it would be someone or something different.
I guess you ‘love’ people in spite of their flaws or things you would change. IF this were true then i guess you could love an android, because you would love it in SPITE of it being an artificial creation.
Even true love is not PERFECT, there are always times when u are unhappy so in that sense what can we learn about love? That it is full of ups and downs? well if that is true what plasible basis do we have for ‘falling in love’. IF love means sometimes being happy and sometimes being sad but always attatched, then surely we could love ANYTHING??
I Wonder what part other emotional feelings associated with love come into play. For example “TRUST”. Could you ever trust a machine? IF you programed it, and therefore knew u could trust it 100% would this not almost “desensitize” or nullify the very issue of trust to the extent that it has no meaning between you and the android nemore?
So many questions!! Keep posting people, i want other peoples opinions or otherwise i have to listen to myself speakin out of my ass all day long
Haha i love that. While i grow old my darly wife become more and more perfict.
I think it would be interesting to make this incredible perfect robot for someone and then make it make a good friend of mine fall desperately and totally in love with it one day go, flip, April fools.
Im really interested to have a discussion on whether you guys think you could ever love an android or not?