on "I, Robot" The one who keeps saying "My logic is undeniable" and then the other robot is like "Yea, but it just seems too heartless"?
2007-10-04 05:25:12 · 14 answers · asked by JWill 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. Unlike robots - and some religious believers, it seems - I have a heart and a brain and human feelings.
2007-10-04 05:36:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think her logic was undeniable.
It may be very human to say 'its too heartless' but I think we should be able to provide better arguments than that. The computer, 'VIKI' was committing a 'the ends justify the means' fallacy which threatened to destroy the very things she was meant to protect.
I found the logical inconsistencies stopped me enjoying the film properly, I'm not sure Asimov would have liked it - its sad that some people who answer this will think 'who the hell is he?' Asimov did write about Robots who had a 0th law - to protect humanity - and that overrode the 1st law about never protecting humans. Whether a robot could become the type of jackass we're used to, talking about 'collateral damage' is another question.
2007-10-04 05:28:32 · answer #2 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. Atheism is about not believing/experiencing deities and nothing to do with not believing/experiencing emotions. Atheism is freedom from theist doctrine/belief of deities, not freedom from emotions or belief in emotions.
Try some atheist poetry, such as Keats?:
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honied cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness--to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature."
Now go read some George Dubya... ;-)
2007-10-04 05:32:10 · answer #3 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Haha, I see what you're saying.
I think this is the reason Einstein refrained from calling himself "atheist." The connotation is that our minds should be cold, calculating devices with no room for intuition or emotion. But as a pantheist, he was able to maintain atheistic logic with pantheistic idealism.
2007-10-04 05:28:44 · answer #4 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Nope, I am a human. Just because I rely on Logic for belief, doesn't mean I don't have feelings.
I might understand logically that the Simpsons aren't real, but still enjoy them and laugh.
2007-10-04 05:27:48 · answer #5 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I've been called heartless before... but honestly you don't know me... and I do not feel like that robot...
2007-10-04 05:36:20 · answer #6 · answered by Highlander 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There isn't anything heartless about logic, it is just a tool. That is a misconception from star trek's Vulcan's.
2007-10-04 05:30:00 · answer #7 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I think I identify more with Marvin, from Hitchhiker's Guide.
2007-10-04 05:29:43 · answer #8 · answered by ♥≈Safi≈♥ ☼of the Atheati☼ 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. Our thinking is always evolving (sorry, had to say it!), so always fresh thoughts.
Unlike those who rigidly adhere to a single poorly edited volume of mystic fairy tales.
2007-10-04 05:29:32 · answer #9 · answered by Brendan G 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would say you have it turned around. Christians are the ones who are blindly following their religious programming, seemingly unconscious of the reality around them.
2007-10-04 05:29:00 · answer #10 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋