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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
I think we tend to gender robots because we have a cultural view that there are two genders, and genderless or genderfluid conscious creatures seem strange to many of us. Even robots without bodies commonly get gendered. HAL 9000 is a he. And robots with sexless bodies still often get gender coded. WALL-E is also a he.
I thought that reflecting on this might help people understand that the concept we have of gender transcends sex organs, chromosomes, and physical characteristics.
As for how we would put a human consciousness in a robot body, that's still the stuff of science fiction, of course, but unless you think that the physical human brain is doing anything to produce consciousness that only a biological brain could do, there's no reason in principle why your consciousness needs literal chromosomes to exist.
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