In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant … - Bryan Appleyard

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To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.

Bryan Appleyard

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.

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Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

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