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SPOILERS BELOW (Love, Death and Robots) There's an episode of Love, Death and Robots called Zima Blue, where a robot that scrubs the tiles on the side of a swi
by PinkMilkshake 7y ago
SPOILERS BELOW (Love, Death and Robots)
There's an episode of Love, Death and Robots called Zima Blue, where a robot that scrubs the tiles on the side of a swimming pool is progressively upgraded over many years by engineers until it becomes a fully conscious android. It then obsessively pursues the meaning of life through ever larger art projects, some reaching planetary scale. It eventually concludes it has found the meaning of life and in it's final art project it disables all it's higher cognitive functions and "downgrades" itself back to it's original tile scrubbing form with just enough awareness left to take pleasure in the singular menial task.
EDIT: I just found out it was adapted from a book called Zima Blue and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds
- foxyv 7y agoThat was such a great episode. But one thing I hate about the philosophy, on the surface of it, is the cynical belief that you have to be simple or stupid to be happy. This is so patently un-true. In the immediate moment, maybe you can be happier but it becomes a short path to ruin for most people. Although I do love the idea of how Zima constructed his own version of heaven and relegated himself to it. I just hate how he had to become unconscious to do so.