What Kind of Love
- WHAT KIND OF LOVE - A black ink and gray pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper.
It appears in the paperback, "Destinies 5".
We often use the word "love," instead of "like," as when we say, "I love to read a good mystery," or, "I love hot dogs". I guess the word "like" does not have enough intensity for some of us. I think however, that the word, "love" ought to be used with a little more discretion, primarily for people; your parents, your wife, someone you care for. And yet…..
In science fiction, "love" can be experienced by any entity that has intelligence and exhibits, "affection". Lester del Rey wrote a classic emotional love story about a robot, "Helen O'Loy" and the man she loved, a story that challenges our thinking about life and love. As does the SF movie, "Blade Runner". In both cases, the robot and the replicant infer a basic question; If you gave us intelligence and the ability to feel emotions, are we not as "human" as you are? Do they not form "souls" within us, as you have in you?
Are we humans challenging the great "Creator," by creating life ourselves, not of the womb, but in test tubes, or by microcircuits and microchips? There is a document called the "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann that reads; "You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should". The future "Helen O'Loy's" and "Replicants" will claim their right to be here, to be part of the inevitable unfolding of the Creator's great plan for the universe.
In this story the man is a robot made to look like a real man, but I pictured him in non-human form in order to capture the true essence of the story.
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