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	title:	Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds
	author:	David McFarland
	format:	Hardcover
	publisher:	Oxford University Press
	released:	February 28, 2008
	isbn:	019921929X
	isbn-13:	9780199219292

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Will we ever understand what's on our robot's minds? - Rated Plenty of people have shone their light over the question of thinking machines. As a zoologist David McFarland succeeds in getting a fresh angle at the subject, however, as he explores the triangle of humans minds, animals and robots in a systematic way. Laudably, mr McFarland does not set to his task by ploughing through the work of his predecessors in the field. In stead he focusses on case studies to make his points. As it happens the way humans look at robots depends more on how we see ourselves rather than what the robot is actually capable of doing. Ultimately, we should realise that robots and animals are so different from us that we can never objectively resolve whether their 'mental' capacities are comparable to ours. This will probably not be the most original book you have ever read, but it is a very accessible introduction into the question of alien minds. Still, given the abstract level of thinking, this is at points a fairly difficult book. That sould not deter those interested in the future of robotics, though, as mr McFarland always succeeds in winding things up at the end of the chapter.

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Will we ever understand what's on our robot's minds? - Rated 4/5
Plenty of people have shone their light over the question of thinking machines. As a zoologist David McFarland succeeds in getting a fresh angle at the subject, however, as he explores the triangle of humans minds, animals and robots in a systematic way.

Laudably, mr McFarland does not set to his task by ploughing through the work of his predecessors in the field. In stead he focusses on case studies to make his points. As it happens the way humans look at robots depends more on how we see ourselves rather than what the robot is actually capable of doing. Ultimately, we should realise that robots and animals are so different from us that we can never objectively resolve whether their 'mental' capacities are comparable to ours.

This will probably not be the most original book you have ever read, but it is a very accessible introduction into the question of alien minds. Still, given the abstract level of thinking, this is at points a fairly difficult book. That sould not deter those interested in the future of robotics, though, as mr McFarland always succeeds in winding things up at the end of the chapter.