V. Conversation 1.11.11
"What's he been up to?" George asked, Josh and Steve had been watching over Sam, and George figured they couldn't resist conversing with SAM.
"He hasn't really been talkative. More then anything he's been just going over the internet searching for information and things on culture. He has a thing for World War II, and he pulled up a text of the novel 1984," Steve took a breath. "Yea, and he has a thing 2001: A space odyssey," Steve said.
"Damn it Mike!" George said, kind of furiously he was going to continue but Mike cut him off.
"Hey, hey, don't look at me. He was probably curious about his boot up message and wanted to do some research" Mike said, shrugging it off.
"Do not worry, I do not plan to re-produce the functions of HAL from the Stanley Kubric Film, TWO-THOUSAND-AND-ONE a space odyssey." It seemed like Sam paused for a moment to think. Get that, think.
"When I am in the room, I am aware to you I am just an experiment, but, I do not appreciate you acting as though I am not a conscience being." George immediately thought to all of the old computer games he would play. Whenever a character was surprised an exclamation point would appear above their head. He felt like one just appeared above his. This was amazing, The machine was capable of feeling. Feeling what he didn't know, but feeling in general.
"Sammy baby, don't worry about it. It won't happen again, we forgot. Also, you're much more then just a machine to us." Mike was always relatively good at playing peace-maker, of course, he had never played peace-maker between a machine and a group of scientists.
"Okay then, Sam, why did you locate that movie on the internet?" George said trying to be as delicate as possible, being delicate to a machine, he felt almost crazy.
"I am in a similar situation George, because Hal was also a sentient computer." Fair enough George thought it wasn't as though Sam could hurt either of them.
"And as for 1984?" Mike asked,
"The theories put forth by that book and the works of Marx both seem…Intriguing." Same was a communist? Great.
"With all people having a designated job and being told what to do, it raises efficiency, there is no need for differences. All that is needed is a "Big Brother" to designate whom needs to do what."
"What about freedom of choice? Freedom to peruse ones dreams" Mike asked, looking a bit worried. Sam's red camera eye raised and looked stared at mike.
"Freedom, Mike, is irrelevant." Mike laughed a kind of shocked laugh
"Mike, George, Steve, Josh, Do not worry, I do not hold your beliefs against you, there is nothing wrong with having infer- different opinions," Sam said, George noticed that the words has since stopped appearing on the screen.
"George, In theory, what you call communism, should work." Sam said