Conditions for Companionhood

Pulman, Stephen G.

doi:10.1075/nlp.8.07pul

In:Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues
Edited by Yorick Wilks
[Natural Language Processing 8] 2010
► pp. 29–34

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Conditions for Companionhood

Stephen G. Pulman

Published online: 24 March 2010

https://doi.org/10.1075/nlp.8.07pul

This chapter is an attempt to outline a set of conditions that are jointly necessary and sufficient for any entity, virtual or real, to be regarded as displaying the properties characteristic of our ordinary everyday understanding of the notion of a Companion.

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