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Blade Runner - Science on Screen
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1
Tue, May 12 7:30 PM
Science on Screen ®
BLADE RUNNER: CRACKING THE CODE OF INTELLIGENCE
Tuesday, May 12th at 7:30 PM
with a presentation on intelligence by David Klindt Ph,D, Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory
$18 Public | $11 Members
Join us for an
entertaining and illuminating evening exploring the science behind intelligence
featuring a screening of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner, and a
lecture by David
Klindt Ph,D of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Harrison Ford stars in director Ridley Scott’s dark vision of the
near future as a policeman who tracks engineered humans - a Blade Runner.
In the year 2019, the police department forces Rick Deckard (Ford) out of
retirement to hunt four genetically engineered humans. Designed to do
difficult, hazardous work, the manufactured humans are stronger, faster and
smarter than non-engineered humans. They feel no pain or remorse; they are
almost indistinguishable from other humans.. and they are killing people. Now
Deckard must stop them before they kill again. (USA, 1982, 117 mins, English | Dir. Ridley Scott)
David Klindt Ph,D is
an Assistant Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on a mission to
"crack the code" of intelligence. Whether it’s a biological brain or
a silicon-based AI, David views them both as giant, complex neural networks
trying to make sense of a chaotic world. With a background that spans from deep
philosophy to advanced mathematics, he develops theories on how we all learn to
"chop up reality" in the same way.
An initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, with major support from
the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION.
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