Short Fiction · Concept
Humanity and Artificial Life
The book explores the blurred line between human and non-human, particularly through genetically engineered animals like neutroids and cat-Q-5s, questioning what qualifies as a 'person' and the ethics of their treatment.
The book explores the blurred line between human and non-human, particularly through genetically engineered animals like neutroids and cat-Q-5s, questioning what qualifies as a 'person' and the ethics of their treatment.
The chapter explores the moral status of intelligent neutroids, with Anne equating them to human children and Norris defending his role by calling them 'only animals.'
Humanity and Artificial Life is one of the patterns Short Fiction by Walter M. Miller Jr. returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.