Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

consciousness, albeit an “extraterrestrial” from our human point of view! So Spielberg
can manipulate with the audience’s feelings as freely as he wants.
My basic point is that the metaphysics or occult philosophy is all wrong.
Consciousness creates Form, not the other way around. That is why I get annoyed at
movies like Terminator because the root belief is that the super computer/software
became so big, it cannot fail to achieve consciousness. I do not know if that was the
precise premise in Colossus: The Forbin Project but it was close. I think that latter movie
was more in liking to that Star Trek original series episode from the second season, “The
Ultimate Computer.” The super computer does not achieve “being” or “consciousness”
(as in the Terminator movies) but it takes control of its environment (including humans)
because of its internal logic and necessity to achieve the ends of that logic. The premise
in A.I. was suggested just before the first cue when Professor Hobby asks his assembly,
“Didn’t God create Adam to love him?” So Hobby creates a bunch of Davids to love his
clients (like Monica). Of course, since only a being or consciousness can love, logically a
sophisticated robot like David really does have a “soul” or “spirit” capable of loving. God
created Adam (Man), and Hobby created David (a loving, devoted child). Yet David
really has no free will because it is programmed to be “loving” to the mother figure. “He”
(really “It”) has no freedom not to love Monica. David makes a connection that in order
to be truly loved, it must become “real” (human being versus a Mecha) in order for
Monica to accept and love him. Finally, towards the end of the movie, supersophisticated
robotized aliens visit human-less Earth two thousand years later and find
David. They cannot make David “real” but they managed to create (from hair DNA that
Teddy saved) a live Monica for one day only! A passing thought I had with that sequence
is that it was more like an After-Death situation where advanced beings (spirit guides or
whatever!) create a believable environment for the soul to feel acclimated to the new
conditions. At any rate, once again, the root assumption is that either humans (like
Hobby) or robot aliens can create consciousness from form (such as DNA). This is a
super-materialistic approach to reality. You can create sentient, self-conscious beings out
of things and the basic building blocks (DNA) of material living forms. Things do not
ultimately evolve into spirit/life; spirit or consciousness involves into slowly evolving
material constructs. In a sense, “God” or All That Is or Creative Forces expresses itself as
Manifestation (Creation). The Immortal spirit became mortal (“Word Made Flesh”). The
seed of divinity is planted into or as physical instrumentality to initiate the cosmic
creative urge: to manifest potentiality as actuality; latency of divinity to potency of
divinity. This physical plane is perhaps the densest point of involution (descent) of spirit.
In those terms, Consciousness must “involve” before it can “evolve.” No cosmology or
religion states that mindless Matter/Energy or things magically just appeared (as in a
magical “Big Bang”) and eventually evolves into Life and then into sentience. Instead
they speak of the Unmanifest or Non-Being or Parabrahman or the Absolute or Divine
Causeless Cause that initiates a manifestation process (Non-Being manifesting as Being,
Creation, Emanation). Matter then becomes the vehicle or carrier or instrumentality of
Spirit, while Spirit if the “Life” or “Consciousness” of Matter. So, in simple terms related
to this movie, a robot can never become “real” (alive, self-conscious, a being, a divine
spark). No “Sky Net” amassed computer software can ever become magically self-aware
(as in Terminator). No machine can “love.” No robot has “free will.” In my opinion
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