Blog 9: Reason

I am finding these stories within Isaac Asimov's "Robot Visions" extremely interesting. It is nice to be reading through something like this and really want to know how the story is going to end. The current story chosen, Reason, had a bit of a different twist to it. The story has you believing that this Robot is truly evil and trying to take over, which it is, but not to the extent that you believe. In the story it discusses the three laws. Is this Robot completing ignoring the three laws implanted in him? Or is Cutie simply following the rules by controlling the station? Is Cutie in the end obeying orders that humans allow and is Cutie actually preventing humans from being harmed? It is obvious from the incident with the storm that Cutie is the best to date at controlling the station. He in the end saved Earth and mankind. Now whether he really knew that's what he was doing, probably not, but he was taking care of the job at task. Cutie believed that because he is a REASONING being, he is in fact superior to humans, with their intelligence. Powell and Donovan try to show this robot that they are superior and that they actually created him, but he did not buy anything that they brought his way. All the books were simply written for humans. The robot they put together, was simply a bunch of parts made by the Master (they didn't really make it!). This story illustrates the possiblity of making a being that has a mind of its own. In this case with the use of reason, the robot had a mind of its own and there was no changing it. Now the questioin is whether Powell is right about Cutie? Is he really okay to be left to control? As long as he follows the Master will all be ran smoothly?