style="font-size:15px;"> “Then my first instructions are that you bring me a complete schematic diagram of the interconnections and interrelationships of the power collection grid and its termination in this building.”
“Such information is not available to . . .” Tinkan paused. “But then you’re not, are you? I would have to refer the matter to the computer,” he concluded.
“But you are not in communication with the computer. Right?”
“That is correct.”
“Then you don’t know my classification. Right?”
“That, too, is correct.”
“And, in an emergency, your orders read that you will take orders from any rational citizen. Therefore as a rational citizen of indeterminate rank, I order you to bring me this information.”
Tinkan sat silent for several minutes.
“You have shown me no emergency factor. And . . . I don’t like people pulling rank on me. As an Independent Entity, I must nevertheless follow my basic instructions. Therefore, if you will show me an emergency—”
“Rank, shmank,” Terry muttered. “We’ve got a problem to solve. I’m just trying to make it possible to solve it.”
He was thinking fast. There was nothing he could show the robot in the way of an emergency, and it couldn’t act as he wanted it to without an emergency. Tinkan had demonstrated he could “feel” logic, probably much the same feeling as Terry had in emotions. So if he could produce an emergency—it would have to be real. An emergency claimed without proof obviously wouldn’t be logical—wouldn’t work.
Abruptly he stood up, shoving his hands into his pockets to disguise their slight tendency to shake.
“Take me to the power grid control center,” he said. “I’ll show you that emergency.”
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