Yamamoto: Story 6 (Sam Lindsey)

Author: Sam Lindsey
Date: 5/23/18
Post: Story 6 Yamamoto

What struck me as most significant during this chapter was Shion's conclusion that all humans have "dementia". The protagonists tries to disuade her of this conclusion, but utimately fails to do so.... When you think about it it's almost selfish of us to think that this way of thinking is "wrong". It's selfish that we would impary our own beliefs into the mind of this thing rather than letting it come to it's own conclusions. Those conclusions are maybe a little skewed from the protagonists perspective, but the reasoning and places they lead Shion are justified.

She concludes this not because she believes that human s are inherently evil or stupid, but because they all make mistakes and that's sort of just how it goes.... This lead her to the goal of not just helping to rehabilitate the elderly, but humanity itself.

From the Guardian (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/30/rise-of-robots-evil-artificial-intelligence-uc-berkeley)... The article talks about how our fear of robots should not come from them becoming evil or whatever, but how they may hurt humanity. This is similar to the      way the protagonist fears that Shion will kill the paitients because she doesn't believe in the afterlife and would instead believe end their suffering is a better fate. Again, that's putting a lot of pressure on Shion. We have some superiority complex going on in this chapter that should be turned instead to looking at why that is. Shion proves that intelligence doesn't mean superiority....