Spock, artificial intelligence, and thievery

So with the incoming release of Star Trek: Into Darkness I found myself wondering why I was compelled to see it. Then it hit me, Spock. There isn’t anything else which is appealing to me about the many explosions, pretty men, or even Spock himself. It is the concept of Spock’s character alone. Now I’m no Star Wars fanatic so you won’t find me giving a description of Spock’s background, as a Valcon or is it a Falcon? Atlanta Falcon? Did Spock play Football?

Anyways, what greatly interests me in the concept of Spock is that he was created to be a completely logical being. Super and artificial intelligence is the recurring factor in many great Sci-Fi movies: Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Moon, and last and probably least, to twist the common platitude, Prometheus; all different forms of unbalanced or carefully crafted intellect. You may think artificial intelligence greatly varies from pure-logic, but pure-logic is and should be the blueprint for all artificial intelligence because most, believe it or not(if you possess the human faculty of belief), like to avoid co-existence with an illogical being.

What is so interesting about these intellectual hybrids is their contrast to their human counterparts. If a man steals another man's space wallet(possibly embroidered with Marvin the Martian) aboard the Starship Enterprise a common man feels sympathy or anger, but if you're Spock, you understand that man may be hungry, forget his own space-wallet, and of course that money buys food. Spock wouldn’t particularly feel sorry for the thieved, but would likely find the offender to be in what the human race considers a more pitiful position; following a quick, practiced flow of deductive logic.

Now a.i. tends to be more dangerous in movies. It doesn’t first consider logic and then balance their individual beliefs, they don’t have empathy and one would imagine, see everything in existence as data. A.i appears to threaten humanity more than a figure like Spock, but then again, it is arguable that a.i. may not be superior to humanity, while a being which possesses all that is human with a capacity for logic beyond us pitiful bipeds, would truly be superior.

Would any of the movies listed above have nearly as much magic without these creations, would a man’s fear be as fearful to us if he weren’t standing near a creation who doesn’t understand fear. Would you constantly question what the exceptional creation was contemplating or processing at each scene if a figure was simply taller than his surrounding characters, as opposed to possessing a different breed of intellect? What is so mesmerizing about these simple yet complex creations? “What is it Dave?”