Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics

by Siobhan Lyons

This book challenges conventional notions of biological life and death in the area of robotics, discussing issues such as machine consciousness, autonomous AI, and representations of robots in popular culture. Using philosophical approaches alongside scientific theory, this book offers a compelling critique on the changing nature of both humanity and biological death in an increasingly technological world.

92 pages, Hardcover

Published May 11, 2018

Reviews

[Sanna Rauhala · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is at the core of my academic and personal interests, so much so that I might be unable to review in objectively.

The author approaches the subject of our own notion of what it is to be alive and die, and does so eloquently. Can a robot die? What even is death, and why are we the ones to define it? How does the 10th Doctor fit into all this? Read and find out.

[Abrar_abdullaha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing, so deep and give me new sight to death and robot. Glad I read it.