Film Sleep Dealer (2008)

Final Prompt QuestionsSo, depending on any aspect or corner of the world of Sleep Dealer (2008), what would you re-engineer in the world of Sleep Dealer to enable some sort of new navigational system for a given character or set of characters? What must be done for whatever character to re-navigate their world differently? To meet the demands of these questions, it is important that you also identity key flaws in thinking, induction, that a given character exhibits. The goal then is to enable whatever character to learn from their flawed thinking and from there learn to navigate their world differently now that they can thinking and reason differently. Below is an excerpt from an interview with Negerastani; it provides the concepts and vocabulary needed to get your essay off the ground.

AI Versus Biological Neural SystemsOne of RN’s arguments against positions that hold AI systems—but not biological neural systems—always work with pre-structured data is that to point out that every sort of sensory-effector correlation in biological systems imposes more structure on data than AI stuff. And if not more, then at least a similar level. N asks: So why then do we think AI systems are in principle less natural than biological systems? N’s solution is to look at different types of aphasia, the goal of which is to see, therefore, how profoundly biological systems work with structured data, such that if this structured data is lost or compromised, such biological-cognitive systems start to become extremely erratic. Sleep Dealer wrestles with the tension between biological systems and structured data and non-biological systems whose fantasy is to become AI. So, in short, there’s a discrepancy between what AI is truly and cultural institutions fantasize AI being thus and so. Does that make sense?