Bionic man, that's interesting, but will be 100% bionic?

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Even if a robot COULD think and act like a human, would it BE a human or just a humoid computer?
Scientifically, once we understand the human brain to a greater degree, we may be able to replicate it, but is what makes us human our BRAINS or our MINDS? And if, as we know, the root of our ability to have 'minds' and thus personality is in our brains, then if we were ever able to duplicate brains, wouldn't minds be a logical corrolary?
I don't know the answers, but neither does anyone else. The forseeable consequences for humanity are bleak, however:
-Each individual part will have an audience, serving as replacement pieces for humans and creating a class of 'cyborgs'. This will be good.
-Religion as we know it will either have to accept robots into their faiths as part of 'God's family' in order to appear tolerant and not indulge in hypocritically condescending behavior, or will have to condemn them as a blasphemy to God, the Creator. If religion condemns robots, instead of welcoming them, clinging to the philosophy that life is only ever possible from a divine being, then a) humanity may become conceited and robots made slaves (I, Robot-ish) or religion will fall from the apparent contradiction between its teaching and the reality of the world.
-Humans will have to learn to live with another sentient species. This would not be bad, except that individual races cannot avoid massacring each other, so it seems unlikely peace would be sustainable between selfish and ignorant humans and their (initially) helpless adversaries.
-Espianage will become much more sleek, but also much more dangerous.
-The potential for disguised robot martyrs and kamakazi pilots misled or misprogrammed by their radical jihad or otherwise hate-filled masters increases significantly

Robots, like clones, could be bad news, but as a sci-fi lover I eagerly await their coming.

 

 

 

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Oh, this sounds really sci-fi. I would like to see it, but I suppose there will be a though struggle between scientists and other experts. I mean, this is similar to genetic engineering and involves a lot of ethical questions not easy to solve. I hope this won´t lead us to a catastrophic future like in most science fiction movies.

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There is something wrong with the link. It took me to the W3C http protocol instead. Oh well, just copied and pasted it into the url bar and got it right. I think all of this is going to be great. Its going to be amazing how they are going the combine the organic with the inorganic. I have always used glasses and contact lenses, and I have always thought of how bad it must be to live blind. Now they are going to be able to put a chip in you that will enable you to see. This sounds way better than messing with cloning, and stem cells. Though I am not against it anyways. That will also create the need for less and more specialized military.

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