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The death of HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s <\/em>2001: A Space Odyssey On this date in 1977 Apple Computers was incorporated.<\/p>\n Frye in Notes 54.2:<\/p>\n I’ve been reading a book about computers, full of very muddled arguments about whether a machine can be said to think or have intelligence.\u00a0 The difference between a mechanism and an organism is not one of intelligence but of will.\u00a0 An automobile can run faster than a human being can, but in itself has no will to do so: it will sit rusting in a garage indefinitely without the slightest sign of impatience.\u00a0 There’s no reason why man should not develop machines that can reproduce every activity of the human brain on a vastly higher level of speed and efficiency.\u00a0 But nobody has yet come up with a computer that wanted to do these things on its own: as will, so far, every machine is an expression of the will of its makers.\u00a0 In the Clarke-Kubrick movie 2001, the computer Hal suddenly develops an autonomous will, a power of using its intelligence for its own ends.\u00a0 That makes Hal a nightmare, of course, but it also makes him a fellow-creature: he’s now a he and not an it, and the depiction of his gradual destruction had a genuine pathos.\u00a0 (CW 6, 682)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vkv6VwWEZyg The death of HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey On this date in 1977 Apple Computers was incorporated. Frye in Notes 54.2: I’ve been reading a book about computers, full of very muddled arguments about whether a machine can be said to think or have intelligence.\u00a0 The difference between a mechanism and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"yoast_head":"\n
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