Blog#14 Epicac,Mimicry, and Eyebem

In these three stories we read i seemed to see a theme throughout all of them. All of the robots in the stories carried characteristics just like humans. It seemed as though this was the reasoning behind the downfall of these robots. The more the robots knew about human life and emotions, the more they would realize that they could never be human or have the experiences of humans. To me i think that it is selfish for us humans to create beings that cant feel the same existence as us. If they do, there is a possibility for rebellion due to the fact of wanting to be human and go through the things that humans do. We create beings for our own benefit, and make them do the things that we want them to do. But what happens when we don't give them the ability to do the things that they want to do. Giving someone characteristics of humans and then telling them they cant be a human is corrupt in its own way. We can expect to create something and expect them to not have questions or desires on why they are here. There are no true answers they seem to be able to comprehend on why they were made other then to serve humans and not cause harm. If us humans now didn't have that guidance on why we are here and our purpose, there would be more problems in the world. What if you create a robot that doesn't want to do the things that you made them for. We then wouldn't want to get rid of it because we have grown this attachment to a technology. We shouldn't be making things for our own benefit that looks like humans. It just seems to cause more problems then not. Out of all three stories i thought that Mimicry was my favorite because i could see the frustration in the robots thoughts. Even though i thought it was wrong for the robot to turn all evil on Fen, they still gave her a good reason on being a human. If you were brought into this world seeing love and beauty and family not being able to feel any of it, would cause disruption in your thoughts. I bet it was hard for Mita to watch Fen be in love and have beauty and know that she would never be able to have that. I believe that goes back to her fathers fault for creating Mita to somewhat resemble Fen. In Mitas eyes she seemed like the better fit for the household all she needed was the human body that she desired. That to me is something that we need to think about before we go off creating robots with the same characteristics as humans.