Villalobos M. & Cea I. (2025) The Easy Problem of Conscious, Emotioning-Languaging Robots. Constructivist Foundations 21(1): 32

The Easy Problem of Conscious, Emotioning-Languaging Robots

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Open peer commentary on the article “Steps Toward Anthroporobotics: A Conversation With Humberto Maturana” by Ignacio Muñoz-Cristi. Abstract: Humberto Maturana and Ignacio Muñoz-Cristi admit the possibility of designing and developing emotioning-languaging, conscious robots. However, it is unclear whether these robots, so conceived and designed, would also be experiencing robots, in the sense of having some degree of phenomenality, feeling or sentience. We conclude that, absent the consideration of how to generate the phenomenality and sentience associated with emotioning and subjective experience in general, Maturana and Muñoz-Cristi’s robots may ultimately turn out to be emotioning-languaging zombies in Chalmers’s sense.

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Villalobos M. & Cea I. (2025) The easy problem of conscious, emotioning-languaging robots. Constructivist Foundations 21(1): 32–35. https://constructivist.info/21/1/032 Copy Citation

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