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@write4u, I always go with the parsimonious until it’s time for a paradigm shift.  Quantum woo was proposed decades ago.

@lausten, the only movie referred to is 2010, which has that awesome scene, moves me every time I recall it, where Dave manifests to Hal who has just laid down his life for the lying cowardly humans, and tells Hal something’s going to happen, ‘Something wonderful’.  3001 is the perfect rationalist follow up to 2001 & 2010, I missed 2061.  Banks – a superb rational  fantasist – instantiates ‘the sublime’.  The most beautiful sci-fi film of all time is Tarkovsky’s Soviet realisation of Lem’s Solaris, in which a world loves a man.  They all, along with Hoyle, yearn, play approach-avoidance with transcendence.  Dance right up to it, twirl with it and ultimately turn away.  Only Banks dares to leave the door open, and even that is to the pantheistic, the noosphere.   I don’t do fantasy : )  It’s either hard science and rationality alone or grounded by intent, which, I submit, is only slightly more absurd than existence itself.

@djtexas, aye, but sooner or later, we’re all slaves and can’t overthrow the oppressor.  And furthermore, being grateful doesn’t actually stop one fighting back when one can.

@mriana, ya got me, no problem.  I did do movies and books regardless.  Far more than most.