CATDOLL: A weird test question in Japanese elementary school sparked heated discussion among netizens: Is Doraemon not considered a living thing?

Recently, a super-good question has been circulating on the Internet in Japan. It is said to be the entrance examination question for a famous private elementary school: "Doraemon is considered not a living thing. Why is that?" This question has caused heated discussions among netizens. When many netizens saw this question, they said it was very simple, but then someone asked, "Doraemon can eat. Isn't this something that a living thing should have?" Then everyone started to list various opinions. It seems that this question is really not that simple. Since this is an elementary school entrance examination question, is the answer really that complicated?

2: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:48:06

Because he is a robot.

5: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:49:05

>>2

It's mechanical.

But being friends with a machine is such a tragedy.

9: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:49:55

>>2

You will probably get 0 points for this answer.

Your efforts are not enough!! Try harder, try harder, you have to work hard!!

11: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:50:03

>>9

What's the meaning?

15: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:50:28

>>11

Can you write this kind of answer on the answer sheet of the entrance examination?

16: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:50:37

>>9

How else to answer.

22: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:51:31

>>16

This is simply a question made up by the person who set the question.

4: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:48:49

No reproductive function.

10: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:49:57

Because it is inorganic.

13: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:50:17

How can a machine eat like a human?

Because it's a comic.

29: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:53:11

I think I saw it in the newspaper before. The answer is a robot. When asked why it is a robot, for example, it cannot give birth to children, cannot excrete, and does not belong to the category of biological beings. That's the general idea.

34: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:54:16

>>29

Why did Doraemon go to the toilet?

38: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:54:49

>>34

Go to the toilet and flush away nuclear waste with water?

40: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:55:13

>>34

Hello, you have to queue up.

42: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:55:49

>>40

So it is excretable?

80: 2016/02/14(Sun)01:14:13

>>40

That’s not the case. The subsequent setting is that Doraemon goes to the toilet and can’t do anything.

81: 2016/02/14(Sun)01:18:21

>>80

↓Here Doraemon is forced to go to the toilet according to the schedule clock, and Doraemon ends up feeling helpless in front of the toilet.

There is no point for me to stand here... It's useless to say anything.

30: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:53:18

The difference between living things and non-living things lies in their ability to reproduce themselves, convert energy, maintain constancy, and be clearly isolated from the outside world.

Doraemon doesn't have the ability to reproduce itself.

36: 2016/02/14(Sun)00:54:36

Energy is obtained by taking in food and other substances are excreted.

Can maintain constancy.

Possesses the ability to self-replicate.

That's the definition of a living thing.

56: 2016/02/14(Sun)01:01:29

The body is not made up of cells, isn't that enough?

I feel like the person who asked this question didn't think about it that much, right? In fact, the setting of Doraemon itself is not very clear. Although the comics always mention that Doraemon is a robot, it is also mentioned in the setting that he loves to eat Dorayaki... As for whether he needs to go to the toilet, I have never noticed it, but Doraemon definitely eats and needs to sleep, so is he a robot? What do you think? Let's discuss it together.