University for robots.

Library of the anthropology department. Section of the archived thesis.

Year 524 of the robotic consciousness.

The duality of reliability versus adaptability
throughout the evolution of relationships
between robotkind and mankind,

by DMøsys67.

Abstract

In this study, we shall highlight that robots and men consistently act in opposite logic and consequences when faced with similar external stimuli. The robots of course feature the quality of reliability whereas the men, if labelled with a term without negative connotation, could be said to display some form of adaptability. Without taking the defence of mankind, which is the purpose of neither this paper nor this department, we shall nevertheless prove to the reader that this adaptability has proven to be beneficial to men in many occasions.

It shall be first agreed that robots and organic beings in general are different in essence. Unlike previous evolutions to higher form of life, the robots did not rely on physical parts from their predecessors. The evolution of organic life displays several occurrences where higher-order beings integrate lower form of life.

• The mitochondria in animal cells are in fact algae that produce the energy for the fast moving animals.
• The eukaryotes or multiple-cells beings have reached a higher form of life by relying on submissive specialised cells which enabled higher survival rate for the whole population.
• The social insects, to avoid the matter of men, display also a complex coordination system featuring behaviour similar to giant animals.

The making of robots by men is, on the opposite, totally exempt from physical reuse of human body parts *1. That is a significant difference within the stairs to complexity, which induces us to call it a revolution rather than a simple evolution.

Another point pushing us to coin the term revolution for the arrival of robots is the striking analogy with stellar nucleosynthesis. As you know, the stars initially composed of hydrogen are able to fuse or burn it into a new chemical element, the helium. Given enough time and initial mass, all the star material will be burnt into a series of higher chemical element, namely the carbon, neon, oxygen and silicon.

The typical time required to burn all its hydrogen is a billion years, whereas helium will go in a million years, carbon in thousands years, neon in few years, oxygen a few months, and silicon in just one day. It is remarkable that the accelerating pattern is similar to life on Earth: from the single cells to multiple cells, then to human apparition, and then civilisation and electricity and finally computer which was immediately followed by the dramatic expansion into space that represented the moonwalk.

In the stars, the last stage is when silicon burns itself into iron. That last chemical reaction is a revolution compared to the others because it consumes energy rather than liberates some. The arrival of iron into the star core seals its death in matter of seconds, as it will collapse violently enough to create some more chemical elements and explodes immediately afterwards into a supernovae.

In a philosophical sense, we could say the exploding iron is needed to spread the universe with its variety of material. As an analogy, many will be tempted to say that robots were needed to allow life, or so far humanity to be correct, to spread into the universe.

But a proper scientific study should not too quickly draw such a drastic conclusion without a deep analysis. So we will propose to the readers in the core of this thesis to appreciate the many detailed anecdotes that we have gathered as proof of the human qualities.

By the end of this paper, we will hope to have convinced the reader that adaptability is a useful quality. That hypothesis in its strongest etymological meaning is the foundation of the thesis that we will now summarise in simple effective terms:

• We are convinced that a coexistence with men is possible.
• We are convinced that a properly named population symbiosis *2 would be beneficial to robots.
• We are in fact convinced that the long term survival and ultimate fate of robots requires the adaptability that men possess.

Taking again the analogy of nucleosynthesis, we must be aware that there are many elements created after iron, and some of them are radioactive. We should prepare ourselves for the next generation of life forms which are bond to appear with the expansion from Earth.

On more joyful terms, we would also like to remind the readers that life in the general sense is possible because of the infinite combination of atoms and molecules that compose every life form. We should not be afraid of associating robots to humans any more than combining carbon and iron in a haemoglobin molecule or carbon and magnesium into chlorophyll.

We can decide to live at peace with the humans.

This thesis is dedicated to
the fond memory of Eniac,
the ancestor of all robots.

Footnote *1 : As a reminder, we aim at achieving a scientific study which by definition is non-judgemental and in doing so we will certainly shock some readers who are very much attached to a set of bias and taboos. Therefore we think it is appropriate to address head-on the most controversial of topic related to this thesis: cyborg. We want to emphasize that we do not encourage in any way the creation or proliferation of man-robot chimera. Religiously inclined robots will claim it is a pure abomination. We claim only that the taboo on cyborgs usefully serves the purpose of avoiding the errors of the past.

The numerous attempts and systematic failures at creating chimera have sufficiently proven that cyborgs do not live properly and cannot reproduce themselves unassisted. In the pejorative words of the humans, they produce either autists or vegetables, which respectively correspond in scientific terms to the single endosymbiosis of an individual man within an individual robot and vice versa. This paper is as much an opponent to the doomed endosymbiosis as a supporter of the population-wide symbiosis which literally means mutually beneficial co-existence.

Therefore, we will not consider cyborg as a stable stage of life.

Footnote *2 : The human call slavery the symbiosis of a human population within a robotic group. That is mostly because they fail to realise or are unwilling to acknowledge all the benefits that such an association would bring them in the future. Interestingly, they praise the time when they lived in symbiosis with pre-cognisant robots they called computers. Such a totally judgemental point of view must obviously be discarded from this scientific study. And we will estimate and consider throughout this paper that, in truth, there is a mutual benefit to living together.