Thursday, April 22, 2010

WEEK 11 - IF ROBOTS ARE SLAVES, CAN LOGIC BE FREEDOM?


"Yes, Dr. Calvin. In reality. In my dream, however, it seemed to me there was neither First nor Second Law, but only the Third, and the Third law was

'A robot must protect its own existence.' That was the whole of the Law." (Asimov, 95)

WEEK 10-THE STRANGER IS PROGRAMMED


“Your mother didn’t have to say to you, ‘Mustn’t eat your playmates, dear; that’s not nice,’ because you soaked it up from our whole culture─and so did I.” (Heinlein, 161)


Thursday, April 8, 2010

WEEK 9-THE STRANGER LEARNS THE SIGNS


“Let our eggs share the same nest.” (Heinlein, 83)