Why is a robot a robot and a human a human?

Answer 1

The differences between robots and humans include:

• Humans have a biological form; robots do not.
• Humans have living tissue that makes up skin, muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, joints, blood, and all organs including the brain; robots do not.
• Humans are born after 9 months of being carried and nourished in a female human's uterus; Robots are constructed (built).
• Human infants can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch within the womb and can use these senses from birth, even though eyesight is poor at birth; robots cannot.
• Humans have instinctual knowledge from birth; robots do not.
• Humans begin learning from the moment of birth; robots must wait until the last piece of hardware and last portion of software are active, and can only "learn" if that is part of their programming.
• Humans move in a variety of ways and because of the biological make up can twist, turn, sit, lay, walk, run, jump, climb, and -- scratch; robots do not easily move and do not have the neuro-muscular control that humans have so robots cannot perform all the movements that a human can do.
• Robots do not feel sensations (heat, cold, itching, etc.) so they will not respond to surface sensory stimuli; a human will scratch an itch, rub an area of skin that is cold, etc.
• Humans have sweat glands; robots don't.
• Humans have reproductive organs; robots don't, so they can never bear their own young.
• Humans have hormones and emotions that act together to make humans want to have sex; robots don't have any sexual urges.
• Humans need and seek love; Robots can exist without both.

• Robots may be able to preform mathematical calculations faster, but robots cannot discuss, explain, or defend their answers. These are higher functioning skills within the human brain.
• Robots will never know the "gray area" of decision-making, whereas humans must make decisions between "not so bad" and "not so good" every day.
• Robots can never experience loss-- whether of self or someone else. For example, a victim of a car accident may lose a leg and grieves that loss, but a robot wouldn't react if its leg was removed. A mother will grieve for years after the death of her child, but the death would not phase a robot.
• Robots cannot know the pressure and drive behind hopes and dreams. A human, though, can hold onto a hope or dream for decades, and repeatedly seek ways to make that hope or dream a reality.
• Robots can help humans do some tasks faster, but a robot can never fall in love or fall in love as fast as a human can.

There's likely more to add, but these points are key.