Lesson 4 The Essence of Being Human
Klara and the Sun
Klara is an AF (Artificial Friend), a ____ robot for children.
She is ____.
She stays healthy when she gets the ____ nourishment but feels weak and lifeless without sunlight.
At the robot store, she enjoyed taking in the ____ world from the windows.
Klara closely observed what she saw, ____ to learn everything necessary to be a caring and helpful AF.
One evening, she ____ that a homeless man was lying on the street without moving.
Klara was sad as she believed he ____ died.
But the next morning when the Sun was ____, she was surprised to see that the homeless man was sitting up and stroking his dog.
____ believed the Sun had saved him and came to have strong faith in the Sun’s power to restore everything.
One day,
One day, a fourteen-year-old girl named ____ visited the shop with her mother, Chrissie.
Josie chatted with Klara ____.
Josie immediately took a liking to ____ and asked whether Klara wanted to be her friend.
I ____ want you to come to my home.
I think you’ll like my room, and we’ll see the beautiful sunset ____ the windows there.
We can do all the great things together all the time while I’m growing up. You want to ____, right?
That’s so ____, but I want to be honest with you.
I know how bad you’ll feel after people promise you perfect things and they turn out ____ to be so.
Some days I’m not so healthy or happy. I do not ____ why.
Do you still want to ____, Klara?
If there’s ____ difficult or scary, we will face it together.
To show that
To show that she would do her best to be Josie’s friend, Klara held her hands ____ and shook them slightly.
Pleased by ____ gesture of friendship, Josie asked Chrissie for her permission to buy the AF.
Chrissie asked Klara what she had observed about Josie, and found Klara to be highly ____.
After requesting that Klara continue to care about Josie, Chrissie ____ to buy Klara and took her home.
In Josie’s ____ home, Klara found out that Josie had gone through a procedure known as “lifting.”
By being lifted, Josie’s cognitive ____ had been genetically enhanced so that she had a better chance of getting into prestigious universities.
However, Josie was ____ from serious side effects similar to those that had claimed the life of her sister, Sal.
A mysterious chronic illness often caused her to stay in bed for ____ on end.
Because of this, Josie spent most of her time at home and was ____ educated there.
One day when Josie felt better,
One day when Josie felt better, her ____ took her and Klara to the city so that Josie could have her portrait done by Mr. Capaldi.
In Capaldi’s studio, Klara was asked to answer a questionnaire about ____.
Looking around the studio ____ completing the questionnaire, Klara entered Capaldi’s office.
To her surprise, she saw something that looked like Josie suspended in the air-it was an AF ____ of Josie’s body!
As it turned out, Mr. Capaldi was not a painter but a scientist, who planned with Chrissie to transfer Klara’s consciousness to the replica and make a new Josie if the real Josie were to ____.
Klara, tell me ____ you think about the replica.
It resembles ____ quite accurately.
Mr. Capaldi, you have ____ a good job of capturing Josie’s appearance.
I now understand why Chrissie ____ me, at every step, to observe and learn Josie.
The survey seems to test how well I ____ come to know Josie and how well I understand her decisions and feelings.
We will ask you to become her and to ____ in that replica of Josie with everything you have learned.
____ Josie, not just superficially, but deeply, entirely.
You have to continue her for Chrissie and for ____ else who loves Josie.
Chrissie: I have doubts.
I’m still not sure if this whole plan is the ____ thing we can do.
I have been afraid of losing Josie ever since I ____ Sal.
That is ____ I agreed with you on this replica, but however well you make it, I don’t think I will be able to accept this AF as my Josie.
____ must not lose faith, Chrissie.
The survey Klara has ____ completed is clear evidence that she is already well on her way to understanding all of Josie’s drives and desires.
You believe that there is something unreachable inside each of us, something that is unique and won’t ____.
But there is nothing like that. The new Josie won’t be an ____.
She will be the exact same person and you will have every right to ____ her just as you love Josie now.
But will I believe in it? When the day comes, ____ I really?
Excuse me, but I ____ like to say there is a chance you will never need the new Josie.
She may overcome her ____.
If the day comes when you do ____ the new Josie, I will do my best to become as close to her as possible.
However, it is wrong to give up hope ____.
Josie’s health took a turn for the worse
Josie’s health took a turn for the worse after she returned from the ____.
This made Klara determined to do everything she ____ for Josie.
Klara remembered the barn into which the ____ had disappeared when she and Josie had been watching the sunset in Josie’s room.
Believing it to be the Sun’s resting ____, Klara visited there to pray to the Sun for Josie’s recovery.
You must be so tired, and I’m very sorry to disturb you, but I have come here this evening to ask a special ____.
I have never ____ how strong your power to restore everything is.
Josie is becoming weaker and weaker each ____.
Please send ____ the special nourishment she so desperately requires as you did that day to the homeless man.
The Sun was ____ sinking into the ground, but Klara could tell he was smiling at her as he went down for his nightly rest.
Out of gratitude and respect, Klara continued to ____ at the Sun until his last light vanished into the ground.
____ several rainy days, the Sun came out to shine light on Josie and her whole bed.
Josie woke up and ____ a miraculous recovery.
Seasons and years went by,
Seasons and years went by, and she grew ____ a healthy adult.
When Josie left for college, Klara was sent to the Yard, a place ____ old AFs spend their remaining days at the end of their lives.
In the Yard, she remembered her days with ____.
Josie was the best ____ for me.
I did all I ____ to learn Josie and to do what was best for her.
If it ____ become necessary, I could have continued Josie.
But I don’t think it would have worked ____ so well.
____ because I wouldn’t have achieved accuracy, but however hard I tried, I believe now there would have remained something beyond my reach.
Mr. Capaldi believed there was nothing special inside Josie, but I ____ now that there was something very special.
But it wasn’t inside Josie. It was ____ those who loved her.
I would have never reached what they felt for ____ in their hearts.
I am sure of this ____.