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A World Congress And Human Rights For Robots - Part 1 of 2

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Uploaded by on Sep 27, 2008

This is conditioning for the transhumanist agenda, blurring the line between humans and machines, as the elite prepare to merge the two in reality.

In the movie the robot is an individual who gradually becomes more like a human being. First he opens a bank account (is that the most human trait?) then he has an upgrade which allows human-like movement of his facial features, then he starts wearing clothes. Later he is given a human-like outer appearance and then he designs himself a central nervous system, and various artificial organs which allow him to become more human-like - and they also allow humans to become more robot-like.

Then he falls in love with Portia - the descendant of his original "masters". (It was suggested earlier on that Portia's grandmother actually fell in love with the far less human-like "Andrew".)

And finally he alters himself to allow him to age, and to die, as seen in part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUajSJe3fM

In trying to acquire the right to call himself a human being, and to marry another human being, he is told that "society can tolerate an immortal robot but we will never tolerate an immortal human. It arouses too much jealousy, too much anger."

Jumping further into the future (see part 2) just seconds after "Andrew" dies, he succeeds in acquiring human rights for himself, by being categorised as a human being. Society did not therefore have to tolerate an immortal human being.

The President of the World Congress refers to "Andrew" first as a robot, and then as the oldest living human being in recorded history (other than Methuselah and other Biblical figures) although he actually dies as she is saying it. This blurs the distinction between humans and robots, and actually suggests that the new classification means that "Andrew" was human from the moment he was first switched on - 5:15pm on April 3, 2005 - when he was unambiguously a robot.

There is also a hint that the nurse is an upgrade of the female robot with personality that featured earlier in the movie, which "Andrew" actually attacks with a drill, although it is presented as being a light-hearted moment. The robot nurse actually breaks the law about not harming a human, by assisting Portia in dying. Perhaps this is because at that moment the 3 laws of robotics no longer apply. (Andrew also breaks the third law, by bringing about his own death.)

The existence of a world congress in the future is also a piece of predictive programming i.e. conditioning us to accept the idea of a one world government.

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  • extraordinary.......

  • Bicentinial Man.... great movie

  • I love this movie but i dont remember the name of the movie, so its 'the robot''?

  • Positronic brain, nice. A good nod to the great Isaac Asimov.

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