There is nothing in the human body a machine can't mimic, so yes Robo can have a personality.
Robo is the best not Magus!!!!
Hello, I'm new to the forum. I was doing some lurking and I saw this comment and thought that I had to join the debate. What you said is both right AND wrong. Think of a human's (or any biological creature)'s brain as a massive flowchart. It surveys every single situation (ie prompted by a stimulus) and acts accordingly (think of it like getting up when your alarm goes off, or pulling your hand away from a hot surface). Now for voluntary actions like breathing, our heart beating and blinking, these actions have been programmed into our brains since birth, it in our DNA, to help us survive, we cannot help doing these things, like a robot or computer. They are programmed to carry out a given reaction when prompted just like a human.
However a lot of actions that humans carry out are involuntary, this is that we have a free will. Think back to the flowhart I was talking about. In a human the flowchart can change ON IT'S OWN (typical of most biological creatures), when a human learns that a better outcome comes with different responses (ie not carlessley walking into a street to not get killed by a speeding car), or a stimulus propmts the brain to expect another stimulus (ie knowing that if you hear discussion you expect to see a person), in such circumstances a human's brain /flowchart can ASSESS a situation an react accordinly even if it has never experienced it before, so in essence a human can allter it's flowchart (not just that but we do it on a constant basis). So yes a robot can reproduce the brain of a human, but this is only in one state of time, the programmed flowchart remains fixed in a robot so therefore only a limited amount (contrasting with an infinite amount for humans) of actions can be carried out by a robot, unless programmed from an exterior intellegence to do otherwise.
In addition, humans are capable of abstract emotions (such as love, hate, lust, happiness, despair etc) caused by chemichals in the brain. These make humans act out of turn and completley disregard sensible judgement, again altering the flowchart. Robot can never EVER fell emotions, you cna tell because emotions are incomprehensible and cannot be explained even by words. Thus, however entertaineing the storyline of Chrono Trigger is, this aspect (and many others) are impossible. And thus personality (personality being how these emotions are balanced and how the brain conditions itself) cannot
So what you said is pefectly correct in the storyline of Chrono Trigger, but the statement in general is false. So I belive yes you CAN like Robo for his endearing personality because he DOES have one, the one the storywriters gave him. So it futlie to argue that Robots don't have personality, thus Robo does not have one (someone that the quotee was stating in response to) because Chrono Trigger isn't real life.
Duh.
