Death and the Machine : Intersections of Mortality and Robotics.

Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Can Robots Die?; Abstract; References; Chapter 2 Death, Humanity and Existence; Abstract; Fear of Death; Transhumanism and the Conquest of Death; Non-biological Death; References; Chapter 3 Machine Consciousness: Ethics and Implications; Abstract; Creating Consciousness; Ethics and Essentialism; Killer Robots; The Frankenstein Complex: Fear of the Robot; References; Chapter 4 Imagining a Robot Death; Abstract; The Robot's Fear of Death; Semantics of a Robot Death; Functionalism and the Non-biological Human; References

Chapter 5 Conclusion: Death Beyond BiologyAbstract; References; Bibliography; Index