(June 18, 2015 at 4:34 pm)abaris Wrote: May I just note that this is kind of sad, in a bad way, for everyone having owned a real dog. A robot won't replace a feeling emotional being at anytime.
That sounds like dialog out of just about every science fiction story that features robots.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.