I Robot Emotions

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To What Extent Does Emotion Affect the Decisions We Make? An essay by Debanjan Dhar In the movie ‘I, Robot’, the main character, Del Spooner (Will Smith) is a police detective who was saved from drowning by a robot after a car accident sent him and a 12-year-old girl into a body of water. The anthropomorphic robot dives into the water to save just him, as the robot calculated that he would have a better chance of survival than the girl. The incident left Del Spooner with a robotic arm and a detest for robots and the advancement of technology because he felt that the girl should have been saved instead. Years later, he is investigating a case on the murder of a very prominent scientist and strongly suspects that an anthropomorphic robot is responsible for the murder. From that point onwards, Del Spooner’s decisions are from a discontented perspective on all robots. His judgments, decisions and logical reasoning are always heavily ‘intoxicated’ with emotion, as they are all based on a previous personal emotional experience. Though his judgements or deductions almost always seem to turn out correct, there was always a probability of him being mistaken. Since Del Spooner had formed these decisions with an immense influence of emotion, would this mean that emotion would have hindered him from making the right decisions, or does this mean that his emotive …show more content…

In this essay, I will attempt to comprehend to what extent are our decisions liable to emotions, and more importantly,

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