Upon reading the passage:
"Not as long as we don't understand what makes our own brains tick. Not as long as things exist that science can't measure. What is beauty, or goodness, or art, or love, or God? We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. It's what makes us men.
"A robot's brain must be finite or it can't be built. It must be calculated to the final decimal place so that it has an end" (Asimov, 221).
I was immediately reminded of the remix "Seize the Day." Robin Williams' lovely speech in Dead Poets Society perfectly encapsulates this passage, and the song's overall message is one of tenacity, change, and strength in one's identity and beliefs. Daneel expressly tells Baley that he's exceeded and defied the Spacers' experiment due to his stubbornness, although his willingness to learn and listen enables him a growth in character to promote change and pioneering. Truly, I just think that this song, when applied in a context like this, helps answer and assuage the common debate on what keeps us separate from robots/androids and makes humanity its own unique state of being that cannot be usurped or dismissed.
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