| In the movie, I,Robot, almost everybody has a robot. | | | | about purpose; he dares to dream. The fact that he |
| Robots are nothing special. They're designed to follow | | | | cares about purpose proves that he was created for |
| their masters' orders, period. For this reason US | | | | a purpose by his "father," as Sunny calls his designer, |
| Robotics designs their robots with a brain only, no soul. | | | | Dr. Landing. |
| They are all logic, no heart. This is science apart from | | | | Similarly, the fact that human beings care about |
| God. | | | | purpose proves that we were created for a purpose. |
| However there is one robot named Sunny who is | | | | If God did not create us for a purpose, then the |
| created by his "father" with a special purpose: To | | | | concept of purpose would never cross our minds. If |
| function apart from the central super-computer, Viki. | | | | God did not create humanity for a purpose, then the |
| His designer, Dr. Landing, gives him an extra "positronic | | | | world is full of billions of two-legged, thinking, talking |
| brain," which sets him apart from his mechanical peers. | | | | accidents. |
| This separate consciousness allows him to override | | | | Another hint that we were created by God is that we |
| the Three Laws of Robotics (1. A robot may not injure | | | | have the power to choose. Likewise, in I,Robot, Sunny |
| a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being | | | | could not have been rolled off the mass-production line. |
| to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given | | | | He was created carefully by his "father" to function as |
| to it by human beings, except where such orders | | | | something besides a mindless drone. |
| would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must | | | | Evolution says that consciousness is an accident, but |
| protect its own existence as long as such protection | | | | this is impossible. Consciousness implies |
| does not conflict with the First or Second Law.) | | | | purposefulness. If we were nothing more than minerals |
| Sunny is unique because he was designed with | | | | and moisture then we would function by logic only. But |
| something like a soul. Therefore he dares to think | | | | everything that makes us human defies logic. |