Artificial surrogates for human companionship are always vastly inferior to the real thing; we crave connections with people, not machines.
In New York state there is still a court called the surrogates court, surrogate being the regular name for a deputy ecclesiastical judge.
The local judiciary includes the usual county and city judges, county surrogates and justices of the peace.
As a result most studies use physiological ' surrogates ' to predict these changes.
While digital surrogates must faithfully replicate the original object, there is flexibility in the way in which the text is interrogated.