Matisse Murray's paper, “Carbon v. Silicon: The Question Regarding Android Rights,” received third place in the Templeton Technology and Religion Project contest at Wartburg College.
What makes human beings special? If the human mind is basically a computer, why do we have inherent rights? If robots were created that could think and feel, how would humans treat them?
These questions intrigued Matisse Murray, a junior in Bethel’s Honors Program, so much so that she wrote an in-depth paper on the subject for her honors course Issues in Science, Technology, and Society. She entered the paper titled “Carbon v. Silicon: The Question Regarding Android Rights” in the Templeton Technology and Religion Project contest at Wartburg College, and placed third, winning a cash prize of $250 this past June. The Templeton Technology and Religion Project was founded in 2010 to “fund discussion and research about the relationship and interaction between technology and religion.”
The curriculum of the honors course focused on computers, technology, and how they intersect with ethics and religion. Murray’s paper topic was sparked by a Star Trek clip shown by Professor Eric Gossett in which an android, or robot with human qualities, was on trial and its rights were in dispute.
“It was probably one of the most provocative things we talked about in the class,” Murray said. “If human beings were ever to be able to have access to technology so that we could create robots with the capacity for interpersonal relations and morality, would we be obligated to render unto them the same rights that we give a human being?” She concluded that only through a Christian worldview could humans be seen as having more rights than androids.
Bethel’s Honors Program provides highly motivated students with the opportunity to take four general education classes with a cohort. Murray notes that the honors courses’ “topics require a bit more thought...it’s more about depth rather than breadth.” Gossett agrees: “[The honors students] have a chance to push harder at ideas, to come out of the course with a greater depth of understanding.”
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