where is the border

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How to define a race? Where exactly are the human-defined scope boundaries.

When Andrew has human creativity, has his own thinking (consciousness), has a human face, has a human feeling, and has a human life and death, what exactly is he?

To be a standard person seems to take a lot of stuffing.

But what is human feeling is just a nerve center assembled, what is human appearance is just a few lumps of mud, what is life and death of human being is only the destruction of Andrew's own choice, what is thinking is a kind of learning cultivated by human training model.

In the process of Andrew becoming a human, he never got rid of the human operator. From the initial formation of the machine factory, to the home owner's conscious awareness of his difference and the daily counseling for him, and the use of the robot's own data advantages to study With a lot of study books, Andrew's self-awakening seems to me to be a revolution in the performance of robots within the limits of human beings.

As the masters of everything, the question we humans should think about is how we should define ourselves, and how should we really draw the line between law and ethics.

Love and freedom are the two major themes of human beings, and this film puts these two major themes in a kind of extreme contradiction imagined by human beings, which is thought-provoking.

The meaning of time to people, whether love is only between people or between people and things, is the law really correct? What can people control? Is Pandora's Box really a disaster? Does existence but no "approval" equal non-existence?

What a complicated question.

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Bicentennial Man quotes

  • Andrew Martin: May one, sir? Is now a good time?

    'Ma'am' Martin: What? A good time for what?

    Andrew Martin: Last night, Sir taught...

    Sir: No, no, no, don't blame me Andrew. Just... go ahead.

    Andrew Martin: Thank you sir

    Andrew Martin: [Very fast] Two cannibals were eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "Does this taste funny to you?" How do you make a hanky dance? Put a little boogie in it! What is a brunette between two blondes? A translator! Do you know why blind people don't like to sky-dive? It scares their dogs! A man with demensia is driving on the freeway. His wife calls him on the mobile phone and says "Sweetheart, I heard there's someone driving the wrong way on the freeway." He says "One? There's hundreds!" What's silent and smells like worms? Bird farts. It must have been an engineer who designed the human body. Who else would put a waste processing plant next to a recreation area? A woman goes into a doctor's office, and the doctor says "Do you mind if I numb your breasts?" "Not at all." *makes 'motor-boating' noise. "Num-num-num-num."

    Andrew Martin: [Family chuckles] One did it sir!

    Sir: Andrew, it was fine, but we might want to talk about appropriatness and um, and timing.

    Andrew Martin: It's ten-fifteen sir.

    [Family laughs hysterically]

  • Galatea: Sucks to be you!