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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- When I initially heard about AI and robots having a heart, I imagined that it referred mostly to the capacity of taking decisions independently, not necessarily developing feelings and experiencing strong emotions. However, I appreciated very much that the author of this anime presented the ability of taking decisions as inseparable from emotion and doubt. Thinking about human nature, you cannot possibly make a clear separation between what we feel and what we think. As a result, the robots with a heart tend to develop powerful passions just like people, though I still wonder how the scientists from this anime created the robots' heart to be so similar to that of a human. In Atom's case, I was sure it had something to do with Dr. Tenma's son, knowing that Atom also had the boy's memories, but it is more difficult to understand how it happens with robots like Uran or Aoi Kishi. I was particularly thrown off by a specific case from the beginning of the series where a robot that was not AI (had no heart) became very attached to the little boy it was nursing. The affection that the robot developed for the child even made it to come to its senses after going berserk! A first guess would be the capacity of learning that the robots have. They spend such a long time with people that they come to develop a heart. It is still not a valid explanation in Uran's case, who was very emotional from her very birth 😄. At the same time, perhaps not even Osamu Tezuka has thought about these aspects. Maybe he only imagined that at some point creating such robots would be possible. At any rate, I see that an uprising of the robots kind is gradually forming, which I doubt it would have happened if the robots had no feelings. Atom's worried look made me feel very strongly that keeping a harmonious relationship between robots and humans becomes more and more a dilemma. |
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