A soldier could take no more of the plight of a robot getting blown up by bombs and pulling itself with one leg forward. [via] The question "What's human" will be redefined one day in the far future. Today is not that day however much we would like it to be. The harware and software aren't there yet, and moreover the wetware (atleast the one making this blog post) isn't ready to concede territory yet. This case is just another empathetic misfiring of neurons (darkly ironic too, empathy is out of question with an enemy in the battlefield). Of course, the soldier wouldn't agree with my flippant remark. I can understand that. I too hold neurons between my ears, albeit loosely, and they misfire as often as anyone else's.
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