In case people missed it because it got mis-named, I mentioned John Carpenter's Dark Star. The scene near the end where an astronaut steps into space to hold a philosophical debate with a talking device which is about to detonate itself. He begins by asking it if it's 'willing to entertain a few concepts'. Device: I'm always receptive to suggestions. A: Fine. Think about this, then. How do you know you exist? D.: Well, of course I exist. A: But how do you KNOW you exist? D: It is intuitively obvious. A: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist? D: Hmmm. Well... I think therefore I am. A moment later the device remarks that this is fun, but regrets it doesn't have enough time to think about it, because it has to detonate in 75 seconds, but our astronaut persists... It's very funny, and a real coup de cinéma.
Michael Chanan
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