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How would you think the psychology of robots goes, or to the best of your explanation, say they are close to developing the same way of human thinking, such as how they process events that the ordinary homo sapian would see as traumatic, life-altering even.

Thanks for the ask!

To be honest, I think they get closer and closer to being more "human" with each line of robots. Until in the future where they have reploids. I don't really know much about the X series so I won't comment on them.

But I think robot masters are already pretty close to human thinking. The way I see it, even Proto Man could comprehend traumatic events. So the literal prototype of robot masters could understand trauma and react to it already.

I think the way they process traumatic events is finding all the contradictions/changes it brings to their original understanding of things.

Like for example, originally Blues probably thought

"Dr Light would never purposely hurt me"

But after the "traumatic event", his original understanding is challenged because now he realises

"Dr Light is planning to do something that has a risk of erasing my whole identity"

So now his original understanding of Dr Light has to change because of this new information.

"Dr Light would never purposely hurt me"

⬇️

"Dr Light will do something that has a risk of hurting me"

With this new understanding, he acts on it accordingly. By running away to save himself. Then when he comes back and sees Rock and Roll, the same thing happens :D

"Dr Light misses me"

⬇️

"Dr Light has replaced me and doesn't need me anymore"

So basically, Dr Light's biggest mistake is allowing his robots to respond to events and act accordingly. Just kidding, they probably respond to all events like that.

I think they'd constantly be learning and understanding things more. The same process could apply to any other event. Like I dunno, if someone thought

"Leaning back on a chair doesn't have any bad consequences"

then event happens (the chair falls)

"Leaning back on a chair too much will make it fall :("

Just like how children experience the world and learn to understand things. So i suppose they process trauma just like how they'd process any other event. The difference is the impact on their understanding.

Like maybe Gemini man used to think,

"My clones are perfect, no one could ever overcome them!!"

Then event happens (Snake man exists and beats him)

Result? ⬇️

Gemini accepts that he isn't perfect? Hell no!

I don't think it would be that simple, the robots also have their own personalities and ways of interpreting things. For Gemini man specifically, his main takeaway from that situation is...

"Snakes = DANGER"

So, instead of learning that he isn't perfect, he just becomes scared of snakes. Amazing. He learnt basically nothing.

In conclusion, I think the way a robot processes trauma depends on their individual personality/experience. So, just like real humans, huh?

Dr Light was truly successful in making robots with consciousness, but maybe a little too well because tell me why the hell you need a mining robot with thoughts and feelings.