Book Abstract
Are robots really supposed to serve human interests, such that Isaac Asimov made a name of himself when he popularly wrote the “three laws of robotics”? (TE 2015)
Contrary to this human-centric nonsense in robotics (and other views as will be discussed in the book), robotics (in relation to naturalness and artificialness) is neither possible (or impossible) nor desirable (or undesirable) to the extent that the respective ideologues (on different sides) would like us to believe of course, this challenge to the conventional (established) wisdom in robotics does not mean that robotics is useless, or that those diverse fields (related to robotics)—like electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence, bionics, kinematics, dynamics, cognitive science, evolutionary theory, computer science, developmental psychology, control theory, machine learning, science fiction, sociology, mathematics, ethics, and so on—should be ignored. Indeed, neither of these extreme views is plausible.
Instead, this book offers an alternative (better) way to understand the future of robotics in regard to the dialectic relationship between naturalness and artificialness—while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). More specifically, this book offers a new theory (that is, the identity-searching theory of robotics) to go beyond the existing approaches in a novel way.
This seminal project will fundamentally change the way that we think about robotics (in relation to the dialectic relationship between naturalness and artificialness) from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I originally called its “post-human” fate.
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