A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Sabrina Grdevich: Sheila
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Quotes
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Professor Hobby : Tell me. What is love?
Sheila : Love is first widening my eyes a little bit and quickening my breathing a little and warming my skin and touching with my...
Professor Hobby : And so on. Exactly so. Thank you, Sheila.
[the group claps]
Professor Hobby : But I wasn't referring to sensuality stimulators. The word that I used was 'love.' Love like the love of a child for it's parents. I propose that we build - a robot child who can love. A robot child who will genuinely love the parent, or parents it imprints on with a love that will never end.
Sheila : A child-substitute Mecha?
Professor Hobby : But a Mecha with a mind, with neuronal feedback. You see, what I'm suggesting is that love will be the key by which they acquire a kind of subconscious never before achieved. An inner world of metaphor, of intuition, of self-motivated reasoning, of dreams.
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[Professor Hobby stabs the Mecha, Secretary Sheila's hand in a demonstration, asking her what she feels]
Professor Hobby : How did that make you feel? Angry? Shocked?
Secretary : I don't understand.
Professor Hobby : What did I do to your feelings?
Secretary : [Secretary Sheila holds up her hand] You did it to my hand.