Noah Harris50 said:Yeah, the movie is incredibly complex and tough to wrap your head around. It really is. 😕
Look, let me tell you a little handmade story.
There was this guy living in his cave, totally convinced he was a genius. But he had zero proof, just lived in that cave with no contact with anyone else. So he heads into the city and finds out that in this old town, they have something called intelligence testing. IQ tests and stuff.
They hand him this paper with numbers scattered all over. They went in order, you know, 1, 2, 3... and the testers ask him what he sees, if there’s any kind of pattern.
The "smart" guy says that's an insult to his intellect. He tells them it's just a sequence of natural numbers. They tell him to look again, see if there's a bigger pattern. He stares at the numbers, zooming in, following them one by one on the page, even holding the paper three centimeters from his eyes just to see better.
"No, there's nothing. It's just a sequence of natural numbers," he says.
The tester takes the paper back.
"Poor," the tester tells the smart guy.
"There's a flower on this paper. The numbers are spaced out so they form a flower. Look, see the petals?" the tester says, using a pen to draw lines connecting those natural numbers.