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Isaac Azimov. Reason

Gregory Powell spaced his words for emphasis. "One week

ago, Donovan, and I put you together." His brows furrowed

doubtfully and he pulled the end of his brown mustache.

It was quiet in the officers' room of Solar Station 5

except for the soft putting of the mighty beam director

somewhere far below.

Robot QT-1 sat immovable. The burnished plates of his body

gleamed in the luxites, and the glowing red of the

photoelectric cells that were his eyes were fixed steadily upon

the Earthman at the other side of the table

Powell repressed a sudden attack of nerves. These robots

possessed peculiar brains. The positronic paths impressed upon

them were calculated in advance, and all possible permutations

that might lead to anger or hate were rigidly excluded. And

yet-the QT models were the first of their kind, and this was

the first of QT's. Anything could happen.

Finally the robot spoke. His voice carried the cold timbre

inseparable from a metallic diaphragm. "Do you realize the

seriousness of such a statement, Powell?"

"Something made you, Cutie," pointed out Powell. "You

admit yourself that your memory seems to spring full-grown from

an absolute blankness of a week ago. I'm giving you the

explanation. Donovan and I put you together from the parts

shipped us."

Curie gazed upon his long, supple fingers in an oddly

human attitude of mystification. "It strikes me that there

should be a more satisfactory explanation than that. For you to

make me seems improbable."

The Earthman laughed quite suddenly. "In Earth's name,

why?"

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"Call it intuition. That's all it is so far. But I intend

to reason it out, though. A chain of valid reasoning can end

only with the determination of truth, and I'll stick till I get

there."

Powell stood up and seated himself at the table's edge

next the robot. He felt a sudden strong sympathy for this

strange machine. It was not at all like the ordinary robot,

attending to his specialized task at the station with the

intensity of a deeply ingrooved positronic path. He placed a

hand upon Cutie's steel shoulder and the metal was cold and

hard to the touch. "Cutie," he said, "I'm going to try to

explain something to you. You're the first robot who's ever

exhibited curiosity as to his own existence-and I think the

first that's really intelligent enough to understand the world

outside. Here, come with me." The robot rose erect smoothly and

his thickly sponge-rubber-soled feet made no noise as he

followed Powell. The Earthman touched a button, and a square

section of the wall flicked aside. The thick, clear glass

revealed space-star speckled. "I've seen that in the

observation ports in the engine room," said Cutie.

"I know," said Powell. "What do you think it is?"

"Exactly what it seems-a black material just beyond this

glass that is spotted with little gleaming dots. I know that

our director sends out beams to some of these dots, always to

the same one-and also that these dots shift and that the

beams shift with them. That is all." "Good! Now I want you

to listen carefully. The blackness is emptiness - vast

emptiness stretching out infinitely. The little gleaming dots

are huge masses of energy-filled matter. They are globes, some

of them millions of miles in diameter-and for comparison, this

station is only one mile across. They seem so tiny because they

are incredibly far off.

"The dots to which our energy beams are directed are

nearer and much smaller. They are cold and hard, and human

beings like myself live upon their surfaces-many billions of

them. It is from one of these worlds that Donovan and I come.

Our beams feed these worlds energy drawn from one of those huge

incandescent globes that happens to be near us. We call that

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