>You're approaching this too much from an engineer's POV
I don't agree with this. If anything, I am approaching it from a spiritual POV when I say that a normal person cannot love an object like you can love a dog.
If that was the case, people probably wouldn't be holding funerals for their v1 Aibos, and there wouldn't be an active repair scene for them. They probably also wouldn't have made a v2. This thing is explicitly designed to trick your "is this a living being" circuitry.
I don't agree with this. If anything, I am approaching it from a spiritual POV when I say that a normal person cannot love an object like you can love a dog.