Everything was in the minds of the crew or ours?
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MemberOvomorphOctober 09, 2012999 Views10 RepliesAfter David was induced to assimilate everything that was possible for the human race and it managed to reach even the beginning of our first dialect reassembling the archaic language spoken by the first people, it went even further. It knew it was a robot and that it was something that had not mortal soul! It felt lonely and looking for the answers, the curse of the human nature fell upon its brain and the eternal human questions began to concern its inner circuits, who it was, where it was going and what would happen if someone unplugged it. Only one question had it no problem to answer and that one was "who was its creator? Human kind of course," but who had made them? Maybe it was curious to find the "grandfather" of it, the mythical Prometheus who had stolen fire once from gods and saved man from extinction, but this fire was handed down to it too by his creators . It learned a lot for all human cultures and civilizations, it knew everything about religions which provided answers to the eternal questions and answers which to a logical mind like his own seemed childish, but it was what lit the flame of search and curiosity a prime characteristic of its creators. So David8 decided to search through its creators inner cosmos, to understand the psyche and see face to face what it did not have, a soul. Just before the ship reached on the planet LV-223, it never woke up the crew, it was a conscious decision that it decided to take in these 2 years left on its own.
It found a way to link the human minds of the crew with its own mind and let the crew to play in its world, giving to each individual what they wanted based on their personality, it systematically studied their dreams for 2 years, knowing the unconscious mind and deeper experiences of everyone, even those with metaphysical worries. So it created an imaginary world, in which the end was already predetermined, but what was not fixed from the beginning, was the end of each character that played in it, like an ancient Greek tragedy where the actors were the members of Prometheus, all different characters with different backgrounds and different attitude. It was amazed to find out that Dr.Shaw was the most "different" of all, the belief and confidence for the afterlife was something that made its brain circuits to sparkle with fear and curiosity, did Dr. Shaw's supernatural beliefs held the answers to its questions? Was it only a privilege of its creators to believe in the afterlife? The only way was to submit them in situations that he had thought of as an experiment but which had left many footprints for the clever ones to see that it was actually a dream. The interior of the alien ship was designed in such a way to resemble the human spine, so that the pass of the crew through it would metaphorically take them through the spinal cord up to the "brain"! Which brain though? How could it show to them that it was the master of the game? Of course it was the one who opened all the doors and led them to his mind his inner self, the temple room where he placed his head represented by a big totem. It thought that this place should remind its creators something from their creator, so the trip from the bone into its brain had to punish those who did not have the same worry with it. David8 knew well of human biology, it knew that the human brain resembled its own in this sense, but its creators were alive and their brains used elector-chemistry to perform the moves, intellect, emotions and all these complex functions. In the human brain, there is the grey and white matter, gray gave the intellect and perhaps had the secret of the human soul, a matter which gave man the privilege of saying "I am" and white gave the ability to control the movement and control of the body, so it imagined jars that contained these two matter grey+white,these two main components of the human brain. Metaphorically it wished its brain would have the same elements! When the cew first saw the snake that seemed to resemble the Weyland company logo, they should have suspected that it was metaphor of the first sin which is written in their creator's bible, the serpent keeping the secret of the tree, the serpent that dragged the man to fall and make him understand his nakedness. David8 felt that Weyland Co. was evil, that its purpose brought mankind to its knees, a depiction maybe of what he felt for its father? These imaginary serpents and beasts that David's mind created were mainly hostile, but only to those who had a cynical attitude towards life. The technology of the "engineers" seemed very similar to ours, how could David8 could have imagined something else, he had the images given to it by its creators! The last engineer resembled a human , David knew human nature well, knew that the first people on Earth thousands of years ago, who feared the beasts and climbed treed helpless to save themselves, when a tree fell without apparent cause, they imagined a giant like them and they attributed to this imaginary giant human the ability of god. They knew that for everything there is a reason and that something unexplainable was explained by the idea of a giant human like man, later though when ancient man dominated the beasts of nature, the concept of giant was replaced by the concept of the invisible God who contains the universe. But David8 wanted to bring them to the beginning, to show them that they were not better than it, or because it believed that memories of their DNA will awaken those primitive emotions that will enable it to understand more deeply the human soul and faith for the supernatural. Only Dr. Shaw deserved to live, only her belief led her by fire and sword to salvation. I wonder if the place that she asked DAvid8 to take her to in the end, will be LV-223, but with the difference that all the crew will be dead, since they died in their sleep. So it was a time travel after all, in sleep dreams last only seconds and we think they last for days!
"... and the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home." Christopher Columbus.
