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Dr. Robert Ford : For all his brilliance, I don't think Arnold understood what this place was going to be. You see, the guests enjoy power. They cannot indulge it in the outside world, so they come here. As for the hosts... the least we can do is make them forget.
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Dr. Robert Ford : For three years, we lived here in the park, refining the hosts before a single guest set foot inside. Myself, a team of engineers, and my partner.
Bernard Lowe : You had a partner?
Dr. Robert Ford : Yeah. When the legend becomes fact, you print the legend. My business partners were more than happy to scrub him from the records, and I suppose I didn't discourage them. His name was Arnold.
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Dr. Robert Ford : Our hosts began to pass the Turing test after the first year. But that wasn't enough for Arnold. He wasn't interested in the appearance of intellect or wit. He wanted the real thing. He wanted to create consciousness. He imagined it as a pyramid. Memory, improvisation, self-interest.
Bernard Lowe : And at the top?
Dr. Robert Ford : Never got there. But he had a notion of what it might be. He based it on a theory of consciousness called "the bicameral mind."
Bernard Lowe : The idea that primitive man believed his thoughts to be the voice of the gods. I thought it was debunked.
Dr. Robert Ford : As the theory for understanding the human mind, perhaps, but not as a blueprint for building an artificial one.
