Cyborgs Could Be Granted Human Rights

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/12/r...an-rights/

Human rights? Always worth fighting for. Animal rights? We’re far too cruel to the creatures we share this planet with, but some limits are needed. Robot rights? The debate has just begun and it will be a long and confusing one, as evidenced by a new discussion led by a machine ethics researcher who believes that reverse cyborgs – robots that are given human parts such as brains – deserve at least partial human rights as well. How many human parts does it take for a robot to become a person? Which parts? What about the vice versa? Will the brave new world be a litigious one as well?

If we can program feelings, then rights are essential!

I believe "Sophia Hanson", the Hanson Robotics creation, already has Saudi citizenship. I'm not sure whether that involves any human rights, though.

No, robot Have a robot right. To both a normal human well know cannot grant human rights to a chimpanzee

If we can program feelings, then rights are essential!

Was this post tongue in cheek Brian? Serious question. 

My own feeling is that this would be a pointless and rather silly exercise at this point. Can we really program feelings or do we also programme in the tears or laughter? We can programme something that acts like a human, that is really a zombie, but we are light years from a conscious being. Are we really arrogant enough to even talk about it at this point?

Was this post tongue in cheek Brian? Serious question. 

My own feeling is that this would be a pointless and rather silly exercise at this point. Can we really program feelings or do we also programme in the tears or laughter? We can programme something that acts like a human, that is really a zombie, but we are light years from a conscious being. Are we really arrogant enough to even talk about it at this point?

I don't believe we will ever be able to program feelings but I can imagine there will be people in the long term future who would like to try.  I don't see that robots should have human rights if they don't have feelings and can't suffer.

I don't believe we will ever be able to program feelings but I can imagine there will be people in the long term future who would like to try.  I don't see that robots should have human rights if they don't have feelings and can't suffer.

At any rate, if we want to go down the route of awarding rights, one would have to begin with the animal kingdom, before even beginning to look at machines we have constructed. It would be farcical to give rights to an alarm clock but not to an elephant.

"Feelings"?  I'm not sure that's the best word to use.  "Conscious, first person experience" seems more descriptive.  I disembodied "feeling" being programmed into a robot doesn't make me what to imbue it with human rights.