Between insanity and love

摘要

The premise of this paper is that humans can have legitimate feelings of love or sexual desire for nonorganic objects, specifically robots or graphical constructions such as avatars. This claim, according to the authors, is justified both philosophically and through interviews. This was also the premise of a recent movie entitled Her in which a character played (very well) by Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with a female voice on his computer that represents the computer's operating system. The movie was quite well done, and the issues raised by this paper are certainly worth exploring. Unfortunately, the paper itself is deeply flawed.