From Peter Norton
I was shocked that the creators of iCub appear not to understand the implications of their effort to build a robot with a self (21 March, p 36). They are striving to create “consciousness”.
Researcher Tony Prescott writes: “Sometimes it even leaves me with the surprising feeling that ‘someone is home’.” I can well accept, as can he, that being sentient is the accumulation of processing power and decision-making abilities. His effort to create a sentient being should therefore be governed by the same regulations as primate experimentation.
Aylsham, Norfolk, UK
