Do robots have feelings?

[Mike]

Originally Posted by sciencenerd

I would probably say that you could call a robot living once it gets complex enough that it is impossible to determine how a robot will react to something (complex enough, mind you, not random enough) you could call it sentient.

Ahh, I thought I had you... but then I read the "not random enough" part. Smart.

So, if you throw a baseball at my face, I am "programmed" to duck out of the way or try and catch it (depending on my confidence in my baseball skills ). You can determine that I will duck when you throw a large blunt object at me, does that mean I am not living?