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In particular, robotic and artificial intelligence (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">AI<\/jats:styled-content>) technologies have been charged with substituting mindless mimicry of human behaviour for the real presence of conscious caring offered by human nurses. When thus viewed as deceptive, the robots also have prompted corresponding concerns regarding their potential psychological, moral, and spiritual implications for people who will be interacting socially with these machines. The foregoing objections and concerns can be assessed quite differently, depending upon ambient religious beliefs or metaphysical presuppositions. The complaints may be set aside as unnecessary, for example, within religious traditions for which even current robots can be viewed as presenting spiritual aspects. Elsewhere, technological cultures may reject the complaints as expression of outdated superstition, holding that the machines eventually will enjoy a consciousness described entirely in materialist and behaviourist terms. While recognizing such assessments, the authors of this essay propose that the heart of the foregoing objections and concerns may be evaluated, in part, scientifically \u2013 albeit with a conclusion recommending fundamental revisions in <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">AI<\/jats:styled-content> modelling of human mental life. Specifically, considerations now favour introduction of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">AI<\/jats:styled-content> models using interactive classical and quantum computation. Without this change, the answer to the essay's title question arguably is \u2018no\u2019 \u2013 with it, the answer plausibly becomes \u2018maybe\u2019. 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