Logic And Emotion, In Relation To I, Robot
Professor John Danisi
Learning Community 9
31 August 2014
The Line Between Logic and Emotion, In Relation to I, Robot Life is seen as a wide spectrum of things, most of them living. It is hard to conceive the fact that artificial intelligence will soon become a large part of our society and that it may someday try to take over. But what will always separate us from robots is the fact that we can separate our logical brain from our emotional brain, without having either act too extreme.
To begin, when life is given to non-living things, it is only a matter of time until it is misused. In the movie I, Robot, starring Will Smith, we as the viewers are shown a society of life with robots. These robots are used as slaves, to run errands, …show more content…
A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. In the opening scene, it is understandable that Will Smith’s character, Detective Spooner, does not appreciate having a robot friendly world, and he seems to be the only one to think so. We soon find out that a doctor, that Detective Spooner knew, has committed suicide. The doctor had called upon Spooner to follow the bread crumbs to the reason he has done so. The movie continues as Spooner battles with malfunctioning robots to find the true killer of the doctor, and encounters a free robot by the name of Sonny. I say free because, he is not bound to the three laws, and is open to do whatever his conscious tells him. He is the answer to Spooner’s problems, even though Spooner doesn’t think so. As Spooner …show more content…
People believe that being logical leads to restricting your emotions. Others believe that emotion and logic work hand in hand. Throughout, I Robot, robots seemed to have more logic than humans, and tended to have less emotion. For example, when Spooner was in a car accident, and the car sunk to the bottom of the river with a little girl in it, a robot came to save them, and only saved Spooner because it was the logical thing to do. In the meantime, if a person were to swim down and try to save them, when Spooner would resist and signal them to save the little girl, they would do so because it is human nature to save our kin. I believe that one of the reasons that Spooner is not on good terms with robots, is because of the fact that they are more logically striven, than
Learning Community 9
31 August 2014
The Line Between Logic and Emotion, In Relation to I, Robot Life is seen as a wide spectrum of things, most of them living. It is hard to conceive the fact that artificial intelligence will soon become a large part of our society and that it may someday try to take over. But what will always separate us from robots is the fact that we can separate our logical brain from our emotional brain, without having either act too extreme.
To begin, when life is given to non-living things, it is only a matter of time until it is misused. In the movie I, Robot, starring Will Smith, we as the viewers are shown a society of life with robots. These robots are used as slaves, to run errands, …show more content…
A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. In the opening scene, it is understandable that Will Smith’s character, Detective Spooner, does not appreciate having a robot friendly world, and he seems to be the only one to think so. We soon find out that a doctor, that Detective Spooner knew, has committed suicide. The doctor had called upon Spooner to follow the bread crumbs to the reason he has done so. The movie continues as Spooner battles with malfunctioning robots to find the true killer of the doctor, and encounters a free robot by the name of Sonny. I say free because, he is not bound to the three laws, and is open to do whatever his conscious tells him. He is the answer to Spooner’s problems, even though Spooner doesn’t think so. As Spooner …show more content…
People believe that being logical leads to restricting your emotions. Others believe that emotion and logic work hand in hand. Throughout, I Robot, robots seemed to have more logic than humans, and tended to have less emotion. For example, when Spooner was in a car accident, and the car sunk to the bottom of the river with a little girl in it, a robot came to save them, and only saved Spooner because it was the logical thing to do. In the meantime, if a person were to swim down and try to save them, when Spooner would resist and signal them to save the little girl, they would do so because it is human nature to save our kin. I believe that one of the reasons that Spooner is not on good terms with robots, is because of the fact that they are more logically striven, than