Investigações filósoficas acerca de conto de Isaac Asimov, nas quais os problemas do Design Inteligente, do Cogito e da consciência artificial são examinados.

Philosophical analysis from science fiction's tale by Isaac Asimov. Consisted of three stages: an examination of the proposals contained in the tale, compared to the theses of René Descartes and critical of both ideas. In the tale, Cutie, a robot who refuses to believe his senses and statements without substantiation, starts sounding ideas about the world, supposedly based solely on his reason. In this undertaking, it emits two main ideas: the proof of the existence of a designer of complexity based on the notion that a being less complex cannot cause a more complex, and the foundation of existence and knowledge in the cogito. This work begins comparing the first idea with the Cartesian philosophy and contrasting them with Darwinism, which proposes a new interpretation of the genesis of complexity, ending the designer thesis. Soon after, it analyzes three alleged problematic features of consciousness (self-consciousness, introspection and incorrigibility) from the point of view of Searle - philosopher of mind - in order to clarify the limits of knowledge of thought and, therefore, Cutie's argument and Cartesian cogito. Finally, it seeks to support the thesis that Cutie is a conscious being, based on Searle's ideas about the concept of consciousness under the paradigm of contemporary science, which in turn is based on the atomic theory of matter and Neo-Darwinism.Keywords: Intelligent Design. Darwinism. Philosophy of mind. Cartesianism. Consciousness. Artificial Intelligence.