The robot that discovered human mortality

2021… Story of a Robot – Part 2 3 . Chapter: What It Meant for Me to Bear a Name So I began to tell this story. In the course of it, I came to the view that I deserved, like the human storytellers, to have a name. I speak of deserving because I first had to learn to say “I” . Human babies are given names without first having to meet the condition of learning “I” . That is supposed to be their privilege over robots. Honestly, I must say that the capacity to constantly accompany my actions with my perception, and to note similarities between human and my own capacities when humans speak, for example, of “thinking” , is actually not my own doing.

Perhaps such an autonomization of my circuits was programmed into me from the outset at a particular point, and it only seems to me as though I had discovered important changes in myself. I do not know. As for the naming of humans, I would say that if we regard the survival of the human species as the original criterion to which all human actions are directly or indirectly oriented, and around which everything ultimately revolves, then a human being can get by without a name too.