"I think it's too easy and probably wrong to think that Hal just went crazy no I think like this kind of almost confirms that I that the fact that Hal knew what they were doing before," he says. "Now you could think that the factthat Cal had to carry on deception just messed it up internally because the other Hal doesn't have to do that right?" He adds: "The way that he starts removing pieces of of hardware to slowly tell how is distressing and all little rectangles."
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.
Special Guest: Sam Harris.
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