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If Machines Want to Dream... Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg on Ethical Consequences of There Being No Substantial Distinction between Humans and Robots
- Source :
- Ethics in Progress, Vol 10, Iss 2 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, 2019.
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Abstract
- Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg (1937-1995) was a Polish science fiction writer. In his novel Robot (1973), he made an attempt at a literary visualization of a machine acquiring human identity. In this article I would like to follow the ethical consequences of such situations in created literary worlds. It is worth remembering, however, that these artistic worlds often serve to test non-literary reality. In his novel, Wiśniewski-Snerg also dealt with the problem of human feelings (e.g. moral dilemmas) in a thinking machine, which is formed in the image and likeness of a human being. Such literary reflection is valuable, partly because it enters into an interesting dialogue with the work of Bruno Schulz (1892- 1942), one of the most important Polish writers of the 20th century. It is also one of the first attempts in Polish literature to address the issue of sentient machines, and is a kind of preview of contemporary dilemmas connected with the work on the creation of artificial intelligence. An example of such a dilemma is the issue of the sentient machine’s perception of the tasks imposed on it by the human-constructor. Perhaps it will start to experience them as a kind of unethical oppression. In Wiśniewski-Snerg’s writing this problem of is, of course, expressed in a metaphorical way.
- Subjects :
- Oppression
gnosis
humanity
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robot
Polish literature
Education
Epistemology
Test (assessment)
Gnosticism
lcsh:Ethics
Dilemma
Philosophy
Feeling
Perception
Humanity
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Mechanism
Psychology (miscellaneous)
Sociology
Dream
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mannequin
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20849257
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ETHICS IN PROGRESS
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ffd586703a78b29578c40d05f791f4fd
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.14746/eip.2019.2.5