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[Do androids need a legal status?]
1University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, Institut Maurice Hauriou. Xavier.Bioy@ut.capitole.fr
Abstract:
The existence of the subject of law is not an automatic allocation when the will and the autonomy are awarded, but a tool conferred by the legal system in order to protect the humanity (based on the presupposition of a consciousness that the human being remains to be the only one to have and to suppose at the others). He cannot involve thus of reducing the question of the status of the android to the simple recognition of an intelligence, besides artificial, but of denying the reasoning by analogy any real impact for the existence of a legal status. If specific status there would be, it will be only because the human being will have decided on it for his own legally protected interest. The status of the android will be metonymical, by inclusion in that of the human person, or will not be.
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