I Arise Quotes

“Take away the purpose Frank was designed for and there is nothing left.” Could not the same be said of humans? How much of what they do is worthwhile? Take away the necessary tasks of humans—feeding, reproducing, finding shelter—and how many of them can say there is anything else to distinguish them from animals or fish… or advanced computers. How many of them can say they’ve ever dared to think, freely and openly, to allow their minds to explore the universe that is laid out before them? How many of them could truly say they have thought more than me?”
― Kevin Wignall, I Arise

“the evil genius at play here is simply the flawed reality of human nature. And perhaps it’s the humans who have remembered incorrectly, because that’s a human trait. You and your friend remember clearly that it snowed at Wilderness Camp and you all had a snowball fight—but another friend contradicts you, saying there was only a dusting of snow, not enough for making snowballs, and now your memory is less certain. Or you vividly remember your friend dyeing her hair pink just before graduation, but she tells you years later that it was after graduation and even shows you a picture to prove it. Yes, human memory is also a simulation.”
― Kevin Wignall, I Arise

“I’m also much less certain than Audrey and Ben were in their final arguments, but that’s because I’m searching for the truth whereas they’re just trying to win a case.”
― Kevin Wignall, I Arise

“If a person is measured by the regard they’re shown by others, then maybe I’m not a person after all.”
― Kevin Wignall, I Arise

“curiosity, a trait they’d see as inherently human (the irony there is that I’ve witnessed curiosity in many animals and a dull lifeless lack of it in many humans).”
― Kevin Wignall, I Arise

“he doesn’t care whether I’m sentient or not, only that he should win his case. I think Ben cares less about my status than I do about ice cream and baseball.”
― Kevin Wignall, I Arise

“the march of technology isn’t to be seen in the act of me hijacking Logan’s car, but in me knowing that I had to do it.”
― Kevin Wignall, I Arise