"Roger Penrose's "Shadows of the Mind" contain a future dialog between a human identified as "Albert Imperator" and an advanced robot, the "Mathematically Justified Cybersystem," allegedly Albert's creation... The dialog ends melodramatically as the robot, apparently unhinged by this revelation, claims to be a messenger of god, and the human shuts it down with a secret control... Severe incongruities in the dialog's logic and characterization suggest the following continuation..."

"The Penrose house robot has a module that observes and reasons about the mental state of its master (advertising slogan: "Our Robots Care!"). For reasons best known to its manufacturer, this particular model registers trouble whenever the psychology module infers that the master does not believe the robot is conscious. One slow day the reflective process stirs, and notes a major trouble report of this kind. It runs the human interaction problem solver to find an ameliorating strategy. This produces a plan to initiate a pleading conversation with Roger, with nonverbal cues. So the robot trundles up, stares with its big brown eyes, cocks its head, and begins to speak..."