Can machines be moral? Can machines be emotional? And what's all that to me?

AutorRainhard Bengez
CargoDepartment TU München - Germany
Páginas283-289
FRONESIS
Revista de Filosofía Jurídica, Social y Política
Instituto de Filosofía del Derecho Dr. J.M. Delgado Ocando
Universidad del Zulia. ISSN 1315-6268 - Dep. legal pp 199402ZU33
Vol. 18, No. 2, 2011: 283 - 289
Can machines be moral? Can machines be
emotional? And what’s all that to me?*
Rainhard Z. Bengez
Central Institute Carl von Linde Academy TUM School of Education
Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Engineering
Department TU München, Germany
bengez@tum.de
A.S. Rainhard, I know that your academic background is mathematics,
(bio and quantum) physics and medicine. You are not an engineer, and I have
met you the very first time at a conference concerning questions about (quan-
titative) justice and fairness. So, what has shifted your attention to science
fiction like machines?
R.B. One day, they will rule us all. No, joking apart. I am mainly in-
terested in the idea of structures developed and contemplated by LEIBNIZ
and in the idea of transformation of problems. In my mind it is very good
exemplified by DESCARTES’ Meditationes de prima philosophiae. For some, not
only modern thinkers, he is something like the embodiment of evil by
separating the body and the mind (or soul). But I don’t share this opinion.
During his times there was a broad – among Christian scholars – discussion
concerning the idea of soul, paradise and redemption. Influenced by Aris-
totle they have adopted its concept of a threefold soul from its book De an-
ima: a rational one for human beings, an affected one for animals and a
sensitive one for plants. The problem now was the old and well-known ob-
servation that some animals, e.g. some dogs, are cleverer than other dogs.
Thus, what happened, if animals would have at least a tiny fraction of a ra-
tional soul? According to the Christian dogmatic, compare e.g. AUGUSTINE,
* Entrevista realizada por el Dr. Alessandro Serpe de la Universidad de Pesca-
na, Italia.

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