There's something about the parent scene that is just like in his complete expressionlessness that is almost chilling in a way that some of these other scenes aren't. The idea I think is Hal's testing his intelligence and he's been found wanting either that or he's discovered deception yeah. But he's also nice like he talks about with Dave Bowman's with the sketches on hibernating on hibernated people which we haven't talked about but there are these like other crew members who are hibernating. It seems fake it seems fake especially for the chess game because he says thank you for a most stimulating game or whatever the dialogue is. There's no way it could be stimulating because he
We welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s confounding 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey." How long is the Dawn of Man? What does the second monolith do exactly? Why are the humans so banal and expressionless? What are HAL’S motivations? Has he planned his mutiny from the start, or does the Council’s deception make him manlfunction? Or something else? Who is the Council anyway? Was HAL meant to go through the stargate? What is the final leap forward in consciousness? The hotel room, the starchild, all the rectangles, rectangles everywhere, the music – what does it all mean????
Plus Sam has some thoughts about our Rorty episode and David tries to rile Tamler up about Kanye’s antisemitism.
note: there's a bit of an abrupt transition between our brief opening and Sam telling a story about Rorty in around the 9 minute mark... couldn't be helped.
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