cyborgs.

Cyborgs. With technology advancing exponentially we are going to come across advances that are morally questionable like cyborgs. Without a doubt there will be prejudice to the idea of robots participating in human activities. In the movie Artificial Intelligence a great question is brought up in the introductory scene. One of the woman developers asks the president of Cybertronics not if it is possible for a robot to love a human but if human can love a robot. Could we possibly ever love something without a soul, something with artificial feelings? In the movie it is said that in the beginning of science it has been a dream of many to create an artificial man. I bet for plenty that statement isn’t true. Many people are scared of changed, they fear what they don’t know. In A.I. we are introduced to Monica who is a young mother and wife. She recently just had her son go into a cyro-stasis. He was in a comma and it was said he had a slim to none chance of ever coming out. Monica and her husband end up qualifying to becoming the first parents to inherit an artificial child. Adult cyborgs had already existed with feeling but they were going to be the first to receive a robot who can love unconditionally. At first when Monica meets her new son she is frightened by him. She wasn’t used to the substitution and was scared to even look at him because she knew he wasn’t real. Although he acted like a regular boy she at first could not accept him. As she got used to his little quirks she started to get emotionally attached to David the artificial boy’s companionship. However this started going downhill when a miracle happened and her real son came out of a coma. This is when things got tricky and the question of acceptance came about. Will people ever accept robots being treated as an equal? Martin Monica’s real son starts to have unfriendly brotherly competition with David. After the last straw is pulled when David accidentally almost drowns Martin. Monica and her