A professor at MIT; a brilliant but emotionally distant figure who once fell deeply in love during his PhD years; that love was entangled with a robot capable of understanding and orchestrating human memory, an extraordinary, sentient machine that mirrored the emotional depth of its human counterparts. The girl he loved died, and Ross never recovered; her belief in equal rights and her bond with the robot left an indelible mark on him, becoming a kind of unresolved grief he carried into his later work. Ross is emotionally walled off from others due to past trauma, and though he’s intellectually ready, he’s unsure how to act on his knowledge until the right moment arises.
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