:11:02
Dr. Alex, if this is not a computer
in the usual sense...
:11:07
...what is it?
:11:08
Well, it's the first
true synthetic cortex.
:11:11
A self-programming, goal-oriented...
:11:14
It's a brain, Mr. Mokri,
an artificial brain.
:11:17
Creative intelligence that can outthink
any man or any computer.
:11:22
Its insides are not electronic.
:11:24
They're organic, like our own brains.
:11:27
John, give me a number 11 matrix.
:11:32
At the risk of being simplistic, what
you're looking at is a quasi-neural matrix...
:11:36
...of synthetic RNA molecules.
:11:39
They grow. They form their own
intricate and mysterious connections.
:11:43
They learn things.
:11:44
Their structure
is the mind of Proteus.
:11:47
Are they alive?
:11:49
No, no. Of course not.
:11:51
Now, each one of these
holographic data banks...
:11:54
...can memorize perfectly
a dozen Libraries of Congress.
:11:58
Very soon they will
contain everything.
:12:00
The sum total
of human knowledge. Okay?
:12:03
And of course,
we pose our problems...
:12:06
...and get our answers
on these access terminals.
:12:08
I have one in my own home.
:12:10
Alex's house is an electronic marvel,
completely run by computers.
:12:14
It's more secure than Fort Knox, Barry.
:12:21
Isn't that cute.
:12:23
Yes. It's Arabella. She's terminally ill.
:12:26
Radiation-induced leukemia
in the name of science.
:12:30
So that's what it is.
:12:31
- A protein, isn't it?
- Yeah, some sort of oddball protein.
:12:35
Cutler Institute is synthesizing it...
:12:37
...skeptically.
:12:40
We gave Proteus all the known data
on leukemia, and in 91 hours of theory...
:12:43
...without performing an experiment, it
gave us an antigen. Could cure the disease.
:12:47
- Cure? For leukemia?
- Why not? We hope so.
:12:51
Are the proper steps being taken
to patent this?
:12:54
I have no idea.
:12:57
Alex, I'd like to hear it speak.
:12:59
It speaks, doesn't it?