Sequels to ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’, or ‘Transcendence’, both films depict the arrival of artificial intelligence. The sequel should describe the worlds of matter and thought, the material and non. For both films intelligence is the product of electrical signals in the brain, which can be replicated in computers. Consciousness can live in a computer. I believe thought to fundamental to existence, independent of matter. As humans we consciously observe, seeing is believing. The thought domain exists separate to the physical domain, it is real. I might say thinking is believing. It exists in its own space, a non physical phenomenon.

So how do I imagine for the sequel? Once the consciousness of Dr. Will Caster has been transferred to the computer at his death, having access to all human knowledge through technology, this consciousness arrives at another unanswerable question. The question is known to artificially intelligence. 

AI finds this question equally baffling, what humans have called god. Science has discovered profound things about the universe with ‘entanglement theory’ and is also considering the possibility of time travel. Science today is evaluating the source of existence. Ideas of science like ‘entanglement theory’ prove that particles created in the same event remain connected over vast distances. That connection travels faster than the speed of light or any mode known to man. Instantaneous perhaps, although a vast distance apart. Maybe they are the same material object, a sequel, like me, identical.