Journal 13

I was very interested in Asimov's story "Reason." Two scientists named Powell and Donovan posted at a space station created a robot named "Cutie" with a positronic brain capable of commanding the entire station. Upon its activation however, it instantly rejected its creators. It was what I like to think of as the first tenacious robot ever built. The problem with Cutie was not that it was too much of a machine, but rather almost too human. Like a human being, Cutie used its intuition and created its own explanations for things in which it didn't understand; very much so like a human would. Cutie even created a god to worship and refused to take orders from anyone else. This of course infuriated the scientists. Cutie's most human quality to me, was its inability to accept that something "inferior" created it. This to me resembles the early views against evolution in which many refused to accept that we could have evolved from something as "inferior" as an ape. So, despite continuous scientific and sometimes obvious explanations for his creation, Cutie never accepted that it was created by humans.