Today in Venn Diagrams of Irrational Nonsense

5 years ago

Theomorphism: Design Strategies for Representing the Divine in Robots

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Tags: mad science, religion, robots

5 Responses:

1. Other Jamie says:

   5 years ago at 7:13 pm

   Without exploring the etic/emic dichotomy, at least taking a nod to Searle, and complaining about some historic fact or another I just can’t take it seriously as tenure-track academese.

2. Moses says:

   5 years ago at 6:39 am

   Accordig to this, robots that are both human-shaped and animal-shaped cannot be functional; and robots that are human-shaped and animal-shaped and god-shaped all at once cannot be functional. Also, there are godlike robots that are not human-shaped nor animal-shaped nor functional.

3. internetimal says:

   5 years ago at 7:56 am

   Missing the "furries" tag as usual.

4. fr2 says:

   5 years ago at 1:16 pm

   
   I think they meant this one.

5. Elusis says:

   5 years ago at 10:35 pm

   Wow, they'll let people make a Venn diagram of anything these days.