[895]To be still is death, movement is life

Moral: If you ain't moving, you're dead.

Kind of makes sense really, even if you're asleep, you're still breathing, eye movements, heart still pumps. Maybe Diegos death reminded them of their own 'mortality' and gave them even more of a sense of being alive.

Although, I wonder where they draw the line between death and sleep or how they define sleep since they may have to recharge occasionally, unless there is some eternal power source. At least the second generation onwards may have to recharge since as far as we know, only the first generation have the golem hearts.

I'm just popping in here to say that so far, I love this guy's philosophy. And the fact that he's so happy with the robots they have now. Tom, I think you are making this robot come to life.

Real life, not just mechanical movement-life.
But then there still is the fact that these might not be robots, but golems indeed. Still wondering how that will pan out..

".... we also eat humans flesh!"

Kat's thoughts: Annie, maybe you *shouldn't* be playing up the "humans have enslaved your children" line to an ancient robot who can probably reactivate the entire army of ancient robots and wage war on the Court?

Isnt that sharks?

That indeed is a really beautiful philosophy. I like it how the modern robots basically still follow the same principle, only simplified (just like their overall designs have become less intricate/more practical.

Quote Robot: "It's good to be useful!"

In a forest run by Coyote, is it possible to put your foot in it? I would think doing or saying whatever came to mind was normal there, as long as you weren't going postal.

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It appears Diego is not only a genius at physical design, but seems equally adept at creating a mental design where his servants are happy on a deep internal philosophical level while being intelligent enough to carry on an advocacy of that philosophy directly in the face of someone pointing out their slavery, and even being just a tad bit condescending of the whole human profit and freedom motives.

If only Diego had figured out that Jeanne would never love him. He could have created his own robot love. With aetheric/science technology embedded, they could have had a passel of little cyborgs to raise.

Nothing wrong with being a laborer and liking it. But there is an inequity in thinking of robots as lesser beings.

Just more evidence that Diego understood robots better than he understood humans.

I respect Ann for getting the elephant in the room cleared up so fast. Hard questions have to be asked!!!

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Quite a disturbing outlook on existence, though it makes sense for something that a creator would try to bestow on his servants. We often hear people argue that the ends justify the means, so I guess it is fitting that robots would argue that the means justify the ends... whatever those ends may be, it doesn't matter.

Edit: I think the newer robots, and Robot™ in particular, are beginning to discover that they have their own motivations though. (love perhaps)

pretty sure her giving him the choice at that point is what cause Robot to be truly different from the rest of the robots of the court (1st generation excluded)

So, robot philosophy is pretty awesome.



I don't think that's the case, really. It seems the court robots are not programmed in the way we're familiar with. Consider the music robot who never learned to play.
www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=647
I'm lost in the details, but I think robot philosophy, maybe all robot thought, is independent from the purpose they're created for.