Wednesday, January 7, 2009
2001: A Space Odyssey
My thoughts on this movie can pretty much be summarized by what I said in during the class discussion. I spoke mostly about communication. That's why I believe that the humans are more "advanced" than the monkeys at the beginning, and even the HAL9000. By communication I mean language. There wasn't very much dialogue in the movie so that made it that much more precious whenever it was used.
The humans in the space ship could communicate with the HAL 9000 directly by talking. However, they knew that the only safe place was in their heads. The HAL knew that too, he plotted against them. It had somewhat been established that the HAL had to talk to people, and that he had no independent thought. It turned out that he did. At the end of that act Dave had to plot against HAL and he did so by not talking. Obviously his mental capacity was greater than that of HAL because his silence prevailed over HAL's silent plans.
It seemed as though HAL was only able to mimmick or replicate human emotion on the outside, not on the inside. He could only replicate what he could see from other people. In the interaction between HAL and Dave it seemed that Dave had more of an advantage. However in the interaction between Dave and the Gods, Dave was the inferior being.
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I agree with what you are saying. The humans are in general more advanced then the monkeys and HAL9000.I also agree about Daves interaction with the "Gods".
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said. The humans were more advanced than the machine they created. The creation's limit is usually the creator himself, which is why I don't think we'll ever get invaded by our own robots or anything. There's nothing that we can create that will surpass us in every way.
ReplyDeleteYou made a good point with your comments on HAL's humanlike tendencies. I was wondering one thing about HAL, however: Do you think HAL's struggling to speak when Dave was trying to destroy HAL was based on humanlike frustration, or that his computerlike processing skills were inefficient?
ReplyDeletewell mike, i think that HAL felt no frustration when he was trying to talk to Dave before he died. it appeared as though he was primarily programmed to respond and interact with humans. Dave wasn't responding to him so he had trouble holding a conversation because there really wasn't one at all. of course, i could be wrong.
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