Laws of robotics were formulated in fiction so that robots do not allow any harm
to come to human beings, and yet they obey them and protect themselves. These raise
many dilemmas for the robot. Is causing pain to someone, equal to causing harm to the
person? Consider that a person is swimming in water. Should he be forcefully removed by
the robot because there is a potential for great harm, namely, drowning? What would a
robot do if performing an action causes harm to one human being, but performing another
action causes harm to several other people?
The question asked in this paper is what are the laws of human consciousness? The
modern society is built on the belief that human beings are selfish and greedy. Together
with market, it uses these assumptions to organize economic activity efficiently, in the
hope that the human being would be happy living in such a society. These assumptions
clash with the innate nature of human consciousness creating a dissonance within the
individual.
Education would have to take a lead in making people aware of their own feelings
towards family and other people. The expansion of these feelings would gradually build
global family or communities (called vasudhev kutumbakam).