A scientist who embraces God
MIT scholar is resolutely open to the possibility of 'something more'
MIRKO PETRICEVIC
Saturday November 3, 2007

Several years ago, in a room full of inquiring minds, a Japanese scientist hauled off and struck a robot.

Everyone in the room knew it was a robot. Yet the sight of it being hit was deeply disturbing, Rosalind Picard was told by colleagues who were present.

The robot, a copy of the Japanese scientist's wife, had dark hair, smooth skin and eyes that blinked uncannily. But it was clearly not human.

Nevertheless, those watching, most of them scientists, felt as though a real woman had been hit. the rest