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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roudi" data-source="post: 3618405" data-attributes="member: 12423">Good suggestions so far, folks.I'm pretty impressed with the conclusions Celebrim was able to jump to based on so little information.  I did specifically refer to certain legal inequities between robots and humans in the original post, and without giving away too much setting detail, let me just assure you that they deal with many of the issues (replication, unethical design, programming) that you bring up.  As to why a future society would ever construct such machines, well, clearly you assume that constructing self-aware machines was the goal of society at one point, when it very well could have been far from the truth.  Facts of the setting are that at some point, self-aware machines grew in number and were, with the help of sympathetic humans, able to achieve legal recognition as sentient beings (with certain strings attached).  This is definitely not to say that all humans view robots as equals, and it is most certainly a fact that not all robots view humans as equals.In any case, I'm not here to debate the logistics of the setting concept; I'm just looking for suggestions for a politically-correct term that robots would use to refer to themselves.  So far the suggestions are good and I think I'm getting close to the term I need.</blockquote>