Sunday, May 17, 2009

Zombies and Smart bombs

Anyone remember the incredibly funny movie Dark Star? When I was a teenager I watched a lot of really bad movies. This was among them. It's not really a movie. It's a joke. It ends in a most humoristic dialogue about philosophy and a consequence of difference between mind and matter. The dialogue is held by Lt. Doolittle and Bomb #20, of which the latter has a very, very concrete experience of Deus ex machina. I think it's a pretty good example of emergence, although in the movie it's more like emergency.

Here's a link to a free stream of the movie.
Some timeline highlights:
31:10 - The clawy beachball
1:12:00 - I think, therefore I am
1:22:20 - Benzon, Arizona

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