According to the Caveman in the Box Trilogy and the Biotronics Project, BING, the robot in the video is alive and aware. It is alive and aware, but beware, it is not living and conscious yet. Not yet! Remember that to be alive is totally different from being living, aware, conscious, and self-conscious. All of these terms will be explained with new notions in details below. Once in my biology class, our teacher told us that for something to be considered alive, the following requirements must be present: Living things consume energy in the form of foods. Living things are moving or in motion. Living things reproduce with an exact copy of itself. Living things react to its surrounding environment. Living things are made up of cells. Aside from these criteria, living things can walk, talk, see, feel, think, swim, and some can even fly. Objects with all the above criteria are considered alive. However, there are organisms that lack one or more of these chara...
The Intuitive Objects (I.O.)