2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY #1

Recently, number of comments seems to be reducing. It gives my mind to be upset to create new post of blog. As this situation, I have made up my mind to write something what I really want. However, I had already written what I want even until now. So nothing would be changed.

Regarding to 2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY, Kubrick had passed away with giving only questions to us. I have to say he is kidding too much.

By the way, AI, which stands for Artificial Intelligence. This is one of theme of the film. HAL9000, which is main computer of Starship DISCOVERY has became conscious of himself? This is really big mystery.

Few years ago, Artificial Innocence, which means Chatterbot became a popular topic of those days. In fact, it is too much simple logic which react with inputted words against user inputted words. If its word dictionary becomes vast expanding, it looks like someone who really awakes conscious. But you may realize that it is not thought with this process which just makes outcome by input. Even it includes selecting suitable words from dictionary using program process, which does not mean thinking. Take “Chinese Room” by Searle for example, you may understand it.

Thinking routine of Chess program is also similar to Artificial Innocence. It seems to decide next move by thinking, but next move has been decided by positioning of pieces on a chessboard. Chess program just selects next move from thousands of inputted pattern. This process is really far from thinking and awaking conscious. Chess programs such IBM Deep Blue is said Weak AI. Recently, there is idea of Synthetic Intelligence. But such idea did not exist when 2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY was released.

Some say that HAL awaked conscious, because of the scene in the film which describes HALL begged for his life to David Bowman. This interpretation is not enough, because Jupiter mission was defined as the first priority for HAL. If HAL9000 was stopped by Bowman, its success probability would become zero parentage. It was just output against event method, which Bowman tried to stop HAL. INPUT makes OUTPUT, it means totally same to chess programs and Artificial Innocence.

By the way, what is conscious? German psychologist Freud said it is EGO, it means that Desire, he explained two parts of them with first layer of desire and second layer of desire. First of them means basic desires such as appetite, sexual libido and so on, and second layer is based on fist layer. Take greedy fore example, you would never think about money without appetite and sex desire. His name is quite famous all over the world. But his theory is almost denied by modern psychology, because his theory does not have enough evidence, be only based on sleeping theory. However, it does not mean that all his ideas are denied. We need to accept at least one of his words which is that one’s conscious is composed by EGO. Our god implemented big EGO to human being. Do you know if we can implement EGO to computers? This is a really big challenge. I think “2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY” is trying to this big challenge. Following my idea is that only someone who saw the film at least three times, can understand it. Therefore if you have not seen the film, you can ignore my idea until you see the film.

I think that people can’t impairment EGO into computer at all by Kubrick assume. So, HAL9000 did not awake his conscious? No, I don’t mean so. Even though, people can’t do it, someone who is superior to us could give a trigger to awake HAL9000’s EGO. The thing put black board on the surface of the moon. Then the thing required result of earth civilization. Someone who can reach to Jupiter means that he must be final result of earth. The thing doesn’t need to care whether the summiteer is human which is composed mostly of amino acid or not. Although, David Bowman became a conception in the end of the film, HAL9000 was only person to realize it by his mechanical analysis. The analysis let him get strong desire which even human being can’t expect. If it is, HAL became awake his own conscious, which means that HAL really begged for his life to David Bowman. And we can understand why HAL murdered clues in DISCORVERY.

My idea is come only from “2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY” film by Kubrick. “2010” which is said the second arc of it and Arthur C. Clarke published some stories. But they are totally different works to “2001”. Frequently Clerk is an original author of “2001”, but he just wrote novelize version of it at same time to when “2001” was filmed. Therefore, the original author of “2001: A SPACE ODDESSAY” film is apparently Kubrick. I used some words “Black Board” and “Conception” daringly, because Monolith and Star Child is the words only in novelize version of it. Please understand that my idea is come only from “2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY” film by Kubrick.

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