Autonomy, Posthuman Care, and Romantic Human-Android Relationships in Cassandra Rose Clarke’s The Mad Scientist’s Daughter
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay looks at the representations of romantic relationships between humans and intelligent androids in Cassandra Rose Clarke’s science fiction novel, The Mad Scientist’s Daughter (2013). Clarke’s novel encourages readers to re-evaluate common fears surrounding human-interaction. By closely looking at this novel, this essay offers a posthuman care-ethical approach. This essay argues that in depictions of romances between humans and androids, posthuman intimacies can reaffirm a humanity that is shaped by care when attention is given to autonomy. This care ethic suggests a posthumanist vision of humanity that requires trying to understand and be willing to learn more about the feelings and choices of a nonhuman being – even if those feelings and choices are artificially simulated.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it