hi frank! i was just wondering if you like stories with cyborgs and robots in them?
I love stories with cyborgs and robots in them — my problem with them is more that they tend to go the "no emotional connection to the world you inhabit means that you're incapable of experiencing genuine human emotions" route. (Which, in some ways, is worse than the "humans are just robots who don't understand what it is to be an organic life-form, so we need to simulate emotions/experience empathy to achieve sapience" route that is common in some similar stories)
A lot of stories with cyborgs and robots in them are "here is a very intelligent machine being very bad at being human because its creators didn't put enough effort into making it connect to human reality in the correct way" with the message that we can't have sapience until it does that. Which I disagree with.
I do like stories where the robot (or cyborg, but I tend to prefer cyborgs) isn't treated like some horrible monster that the human characters have to do their best to minimize the harm caused by. It's more "let me into this world; you live in this world, and the fact that I can't share in it doesn't mean I can't love you"
