Haha!Spliting perception appears right here. I think this is a pre-modern consideration and it resembles to simple programmed binary calculated robots that can only operate orders and hard to possess their own ideas. But in the future as humans proceed into post-modernism thinking, they don't consider extreme ideas of matter. Instead, they conceive matters as nihilistic objects and expand on them with infinite imaginations and reasoning. This is how colleges prompt to cultivate us.
If robots transform into post-modernists, it will really cool for them, but hard for them to accept since they are born with missions and do righteous targets. This reminds me of Mr. Meeseeks in Rick and Morty. If they accomplish they goal, they will end themselves, but to achieve that they can be unscrupulous and cause riots in order to accomplish their missions. Kind of like "Ultron" in Avengers 2, and their intentions might completely digress from what their inventors intend to operate.
Perhaps having self-concepts and measurements will unleash their inhibited independent thinking and induce rebellions:)