Android dream

Isabel Pérez del Pulgar

France

There are problematic contemporary debates about the meaning of free will. The ability to make decisions and carry them out with a certain degree of control. The real existence of this control to decide with autonomy and individuality is questioned, since this capacity depends on learning and socialization. We choose on desires and beliefs that already exist or have been imposed, conditioned by cognitive, situational, contextual, emotional, genetic, cultural factors. Therefore, do we really act according to our motives, desires and beliefs, are we spectators or arbiters of our own life, or players doing what we can? 

The difference between a human and an android is that the latter is a machine lacking and incapable of consciousness and free will. Created with specific functions for a determined activity. But, is there not an instrumentalization and indoctrination of the human being so that he acts, produces and consumes within a determined sociopolitical gear? Wouldn't the awareness of one's own reality and freedom to decide be a simulation, and therefore, wouldn't an android be the simulation of a simulation? Are we not facing the image of a human that sounds like an android or an android that sounds like a human?

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