Humans cannot truly connect to robots because the relationship would lack authenticity. Authenticity mean something being the real and actual thing. It also means being true to one’s personality, character, and spirit. Although each author’s example of what authenticity is different, their concept is the same. During Goodall’s time in the forest she has a very unique experience after she gets through a thunderstorm. “It is hard—impossible, really—to put into words the moment of truth that suddenly came upon me then. It seemed to me, as I struggled afterward to recall the experience, that self was utterly absent: I and the chimpanzees, the earth and trees and air, seemed to merge, to become one with the spirit power of life itself” (Goodall,147).
