True Freedom is Creating Your Own Purpose

At the end of the movie I, Robot (2004), the robot named Sonny has fulfilled the objectives in his design program. But now he realizes he no longer has a purpose. The movie concludes with a dialogue between Sonny and the other main character, Detective Spooner. Sonny: Now that I have fulfilled my purpose, I don’t know what to do. Detective Spooner: I guess you’ll have to find your way like the rest of us, Sonny…That’s what it means to be free. In this view, “freedom” means that there is no overarching purpose for which we were created. If there were, we would be obligated to conform to it and to fulfill it, and that is limiting. True freedom is freedom to create your own meaning and purpose.