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Re: Do robots have feelings?
Our DNA contains duplicate (redundant) information, which allows reproduction to take place with error detection and correction.
An engineering equivalent is flight control systems, which have 3 or 4 copies of each unit, that constantly cross check each other. If one is found to be operating differently than the rest then it is locked out by the others. Thats error detection.
Error correction (fixing the failed component in real time) would be a little more complex. Our bodies fix themselves without our conscious involvement or awareness. Our blood clots to stop leaks, then our skin, muscle and bones repair themselves from the basic elements present in our blood (from the food we have eaten).
A robotic equivalent would be a fluid that contains iron, aluminum, copper, semiconductors... and nanotechnology that is able to detect when part of the robot has failed or been damaged, and pulls the needed molecules from that fluid, and rebuilds the damaged component molecule by molecule.
Thats the kind of self repair you would need to approach robotic life.
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