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Machines can't love or be loved

Machines, which are mere collections of parts, can't love or be loved. Only unified wholes that govern their parts—e.g. humans, have the capacity to love what is lovable or be loved by those who love. Machines can't love and hence lack minds.

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Paul Weiss (1960).

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