>Being so alienated from others that they're having an intimate relationship with a computer program seems like a very worrying issue You could say something s

>Being so alienated from others that they're having an intimate relationship with a computer program seems like a very worrying issue You could say something similar about becoming sexually aroused by looking at an image on a computer screen instead of actually having sex with another person. Just like sexual response, romantic attachment operates in a simple and predictable way. It can easily be triggered with artificial dialog, and is subjectively experienced the same way as in a "real" relationship.