Artificial Intelligence, Real Life

I am glad to watch A.I. (by Steven Spielberg) again last evening. I have always wanted to "relook" at some of the scenes which I didn't watch carefully at the movie theater the first time.

A.I. is about a robot boy, David, who is such an advanced machine that he is capable not only of feelings but emotions as well, particularly the desire to be loved. I am not so much into the technology stuff, not into whether we have the technological means in creating such an advanced mechanical life, though artificial intelligence is around us everywhere now.

The story tells us how David seeks for a "blue fairy" to give him a real life. It is very much a modern Pinochio story. But the story moves on and tells of the future of the human race, and the continuation of life beyond the human race and anything we understand today (including the speculation of extraterrestrial life). The movie does not just depict an organic life (humans) and a mechanical life (machos, the robots), but a third form. Towards the end of the film, it shows life in a non-material form (neither organic nor mechanic), in the form of pure energy. I wonder how this has gone into the script, for it is beyond the cosmic teachings of most ancient and modern schools.