Completely disagree. Piling on computing power will in no way make robots closer to self awareness. And without a computer being aware, it cannot be classified as male or female (other than anatomical correctness - but that makes it nothing more than a common sex toy). Awareness is not a "problem of computation", but rather, it requires a fundamental change in computing architecture wherein, self awareness or "desire to exist" comes first and the hardware built around it to simply support or sustain this "desire". When humans look for a mate, we are actually looking to find someone with "desires" compatible with our own - and the rest of our "married" lives are built around this loosely merged desire. I'm not being romantic here, but rather, it is this "ability to perceive our own desire" that differentiates humans from calculators. Sexually compatible humans are tempted by our partners' ability to fulfil our own desires that helps us bond. How in hell will you tempt a computer?

All robots will be linked to each other . and during free time the processor(s) will be used to compute large complex equations ....

There's already a precendence set for banning marriage among our own species. What reason is there to believe marriage to a non-human will be allowed?

What about a male spouse/companion? How nice it would be to not have to wash a man's dirty underwear and socks. On the other hand, I think I might prefer a real man.

I ordered one from NewEgg this afternoon with free 3 business day delivery. I got the optional package that includes blue eyes, blond hair and an on/off switch.

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I think there is a law against having two.

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