Robotic Love

 

 

Is a Robot capable of love?

That is the question I ask,

Can man in all his brilliance

Ever achieve this task?

 

I say a resounding “No!”

Love is beyond man’s creativity,

It is not a material attribute

It is a divine facility.

 

Science has no explanation

For the feeling we call love,

It is a grace that we’ve been given

From the very God above.

 

It separates us from robots

However marvelous robots be,

They are incapable of love

And this is not difficult to see.

 

Robots follow commands

Built into their circuitry

Via an array of off and on switches

Of immense complexity.

 

 

Love is not programmable

Even though tears may be,

Laughter too may be programmed

But not emotionally.

 

Heart and brain are material

But not affection or the mind,

Robots are all together material

Whatever we may opine.

 

Intelligence is immaterial

And goes far beyond commands,

So too love and emotional affection

Requires a mind to understand.

 

“But a robot has a mind

And a rather complex one at that.

It’s in its sophisticated circuitry

And that’s a scientific fact.”

 

Sounds rather impressive

But is that really a fact?

Whence came its independent mind?

Can you please answer that?

 

Of what is its mind made?

Of circuitry, nuts and bolts

Triggered by an electric current

And that is its life in volts.

 

Check the human mind!

Of circuitry? Yes!

But of nuts and bolts and other stuff?

No such material mess.

 

Love is of the immaterial:

So are the heart and mind of man,

No such occurrence in a robot

That’s made by human hand.

 

 

I do not care how sophisticated

A robot’s material circuitry,

It is not capable of love

And it never will be.

 

God did not make robots

And I can see the reason why,

They are incapable of love

And God is love; that’s why.

 

Man is not a love source

Hence love he cannot impart,

But he can show it by his actions

And experience it in his heart.

 

It is ludicrous to believe

A robot is capable of love

When all of its action is electric driven

And naught of the God of love.

 

Robotic love is unreal

As unreal as “Big Bang” can be,

A misnomer, if you see what I mean,

Like an unreal reality.

 

Stewart Russell © March 24, 2022