Is Friendship Ever Artificial?
Tag:
computers
When:
4:00 PM, Saturday 25 May 2019
(1 hour 30 minutes)
Where:
San Mateo Marriott
- Connect 3
How:
If you can't tell whether a virtual or online entity is "real" or not, does it matter? Suppose you make a friend online and then discover that your friend is a computer program. Does that negate the enjoyment you got from the interactions? Do the things you do to non-human entities in a virtual environment count as "you"? Where does imagination end and consequence begin?