Abstract

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This master-thesis examines the idea of the self. It examines what the idea of self potentially holds and stands for and what this idea of being a self means to the individual human being. This area of investigation is approached in the mixing of two subjects that this thesis represents; philosophy & science together with psychology.

The main aim of this thesis is to discusses whether there is a difference in the reception of the social
robot Paro in Japan versus Denmark, and whether the discourses that surround robotics differ. Also,
the question of whether an emotional relation to a robot can be authentic will also be considered by

Gothic narratives tend to privilege one particular subject above all others: women’s entrapment in domestic architectural spaces.