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written by Jack Paglen and directed by Wally Pfister, Transcendence tells the story of how a quantum computer gains sentience and the collision and conflict that results when machine and man merge. Johnny Depp plays Dr. Castor, a scientist looking for funding to back his research project to develop a thinking computer. The "Strong Artificial Intelliegence" as it is called, is engineered to problem solve, and with extreme programing, with neuronal engineering is said to be poised to surpass and overcome human biology. The scieintist are hoping to unlock the nature of consciousness, discover where the soul resides, and replicate it via a super quantum computer. This is called the "singularity". Dr. Castor and his wife Evelyn Castor, have hopes of curing cancer, eliminating poverty, disease, hunger, all manor of ills that plague the planet and humanity.. thereby healing the planet. . The Castors present their hypothesis to a symposium filled with mathematicians, engineers, neuro-scientist, with hopes of garnering funds to further their research.
However, there is a radical group of students and onlookers, poised to stop the researchers from any further development. The group is steeped in
fear and the "terrorist" group called "Rift" revolutionary independence from technology, do not accept a world with quantum technology that becomes merched with biology, no matter how altruistic the intent. Rebecca Hall plays Evie Castor, Paul Bettany plays Max Waters lead programmer ushering in the "soulful element " of "Pinn" the independent Neuronal network invented by Dr. Will Castor. Morgan Freeman plays the researcher and Cryptologist Dr. Joseph Taggert, Cillian Murphy plays Donald Buchwald, FBI agent in charge of investing the bombing, the terrorist, the research, and finding out why the terrorist are trying to kill Dr. Castor, and destroy years of reseach.
The development of Strong AI has ignited deep seated fear and resentment , that manifest in the simultaneous bombing of multiple labs across the country, killing many people, scientist and civilians. One of the terrorist shoots Will Castor with a "Polonium dipped isotope, radioactive radiation poisoning and the affects are irreversible. He will be dead in 5 weeks. With the time he has left, Will decides to spend it with his wife and not in the laboratory. Since the co-ordinated attack left the bulk of the reseach in ruins, Evie decides to shut down the lab, but stumbles onto key concepts that link and click in her mind that her husband was close to the "singularity". Will is dying, she attempts to build the lab at home. They download Wills' conscienousness into the quantum computer. His physical body dies during the research. But is consciousness lives in the quantum computer and grows.. expands so much they all must relocate to further the work, and Dr. Castor comes alive again to lead the research.. It starts to get really "Supernatural" when the environment and Will Castor become one and people from all over the desert who want treatment for ills, derive supernatural powers and this really sends RIFT into overdrive... I did not like the extreme measures the terrorist used to block the research, kidnapping Max and turning him into their "Patsy" , and the scene where Will Castor, in an effort to quell and calm his wifes' feelings, reads her neuronal impulses, blood analytes, vital signs, blood chemistry and projects it all on the big screen in the lab. His power had become so immense, he could not see he crossed the line and not only had he not given it a second thought to penetrate her thoughts he took it another step and invaded her body chemistry, physiology, brain chemistry and mapped her anatomy and showed her. Fortunately, she knew when she and Will got deeper and deeper into the research, anything was possible. The unthinkable happened, she was afraid of what he'd become and the only alternative was now, for Max to create a virus, give it to Evie to trap Will and infect him, thereby infected the entire internet, threatening to throw civilization backward into the stoneage, total darkness..no more technology. While, Dr. Castors' comment during the synposium, before all the violence ensued, that man has always, though out time, as attempted to create God, or become a God, this is where man always gets it wrong. It may be true that the universe has a way of stoping all attempts at man overreaching . As if God has a built in "Dead Mans' Switch that is automatically kicked in when mankind takes it one step beyond.. I love this movie, because it gives us a peek into what we as a species might expect from ourselves in the near future.
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