(ITA - 2001 - 1a Fase)(...)Ever since Dad had retu
(ITA - 2001 - 1a Fase)
(...)
Ever since Dad had returned from his life at sea he had been interested in robots. Maybe that in itself wasn't so strange, but with Dad it didn't end there. He was convinced that one day science would be able to create artificial people. By this, he didn't just mean those dumb metal robots with red and green flashing lights and hollow voices. Oh no, Dad believed that science would one day be able to create real thinking human beings, like us. And there was more - he also believed that, fundamentally, human beings are artificial objects. (...)
"Just imagine if all this suddenly came alive, Hans Thomas," he said. "Imagine if these Lego figures suddenly began to toddle around among the plastic houses. What would we do then?" (...) "Basically, we ourselves are such Lego figures."
The Solitaire Mystery - J. Gaardner - p.8
Para o pai de Thomas:
a clonagem humana já era possível.
seu interesse por robôs se apoiava em descobertas da ciência.
objetos artificiais criados pela ciência assemelhavam-se a seres humanos.
os avanços tecnológicos possibilitavam que bonecos de Lego se locomovessem e brincassem pela casa.
os seres humanos eram, em sua essência, figuras vivas de Lego.
