Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Was HAL conscious?

Was HAL conscious?

3 comments:

Bert said...

According to Chandra, most definitely.

Alex said...

I would have to say he seemed to be self aware, beyond an AI system which would be simply a spaceship engineering tool.

His self awareness was not quite as scary as the lesser AI self awareness of Bomb #20 in Dark Star. Here we see a self awareness which is truly human. Of course you have just give a child a bomb to play with, so buyer beware.

Anonymous said...

HAL thought he was conscious, but it was all in his mind.