Androids and Mind/Body Problems



Androids and Mind/Body Problems

Mind/Body Problems of Maddox and Picard

The source of problem between Picard and Maddox was the Android named Data, which was used by Starfleet Enterprise for exploration of Galaxy only. Data was designed in an advanced way that Data could function like humans and machines both at the same time by producing relevant and productive results.

Maddox and Picard both were seeing Data in a different way. For Maddox, Data was just a machine and Picard treated it like a real human. The conflict revolves around the concept of Emergentism as described by Hasker in ...