How Does It Morally Equal To Be Human

In a society that habitually creates culture, the use and innovative birth of technology has become ingrained within our own. Even more so, technology is replacing jobs that were once occupied by people and we are becoming more dependent on its convenience. Robots, every day, are being created to simplify tasks, are being coded to respond to orders, to learn, to observe and to mimic humanistic features. Many hope to create artificial intelligence that has human characteristics such as self-awareness, emotions, and memories. If science goes as far to create such technologically advanced beings, are we then to treat them morally similar to a person? Are we to respect them as we do our elders and bosses? If they commit crimes, are we to submit them to trials as we do humans? I will argue that even since robots can think and process on humanistic levels, they will never be morally equal to a human being.
Persons are much more complex than just thoughts--emotions, personality, and flaws are all factors to be considered. Although such characteristics are not required to think, they are requirements of persons. If robots cannot have such qualities than they are not to be treated morally equal to a person. To begin ,even though some robots will be programmable to understand and even process emotion, they will not be able to realistically and humanistically feel them. Emotions such as sympathy, empathy, guilt and regret are those that are necessary for one to be considered morally equal to a human being. Additionally, emotions, to a certain extent, can affect a person's physiological self in ways that scientists and doctors have yet to figure out. Sure someone can program such effects in a robot, but it will not be as authentic as a human