nanook
a scream in a vortex
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embedded video above. if it doesn't load, here is the direct link
text from vimeo site said:"The movie is based on the short story “GOLEM XIV†of “Imaginary Magnitude†by Stanislaw Lem from 1973.
The book is written from the perspective of a military A.I. computer who obtains consciousness, moving towards personal technological singularity with growing intelligence.
It starts to refuse military support because it detects a basic lacking of internal logical consistency of war. (comment: hence the thread title)
GOLEM gives several lectures with focus on mankind's position in the process of evolution and the possible biological and intellectual future of humanity before it ceases communication.
The movies tells about the first point of its "about man threefold" lecture as a reduced and simplified version while visually weaving this with GOLEM simulating human culture processes based on ideas and dynamics of freedom and curiosity, fear and security, abstraction and fiction, the lack of accessibility in face of unknowing and the need for generating meaning."
my comment: when i hear culture, i take it as synonym for ego, in the context of what was said here. "culture" is said to distract us from being in touch with reality. ego does the same. ego is like the most intimate aspect of culture. we are required to answer to other people in ways that are aligned with the traditional/cultural logic of egoic/false-self. this includes for example outwardly acknowledging concepts like "being guilty" or "responsible", when our internal experience was one of innocence/stupidity. we begin to believe that we are what we are taught to display/report or how we are perceived (as suggested through feedback) and that other people are, what they display (what is being said about them, what they are expected to report). it follows, that we would begin to accuse other people of being their appearance, without knowing their internal experience. in that sense, we are thought to be egoic, through relationship, even though there is an underlying mechanism in us, that receives this teaching, which is itself of course not a product of culture. it's said, that culture needs to be seen though, to become transparent, then we will overcome it. that's exactly how you deal with the ego/false-self. you can't repress it by any means, but it becomes transparent to our intelligence and thereby looses it's restrictive functionality. to be "ego-aware" is a stage that is unavoidable within the sequence of development, just like becoming post-conformist.