21st November 2014, 12:45 PM
You know those Pixar people, always saying "what about the life of this inanimate object?" (and it always ends up amazing, except for Cars). Well prepare to be blown away, because now they're taking concepts and turning them into people.
So two things. First of all, I think it's great that Disney is remaking Herman's Head. Wait, nobody got that joke? Um, Herman's Head was an early 90's sitcom about this guy Herman and all his emotions were people living their own lives inside his head. Nobody watched it. Well, I'm sure Pixar's version will be better.
Secondly, and I know I'm overthinking this but... there's a bit of an infinite regress problem here. If all your thoughts are individual people in your head, then where do those homunculus' thoughts come from? Do they have inner-inner people in their heads controlling their different states of, say, sadness? And so on ad infinitum.
I'm still going to watch it and I'm still going to cry though, I'm just sayin'.
So two things. First of all, I think it's great that Disney is remaking Herman's Head. Wait, nobody got that joke? Um, Herman's Head was an early 90's sitcom about this guy Herman and all his emotions were people living their own lives inside his head. Nobody watched it. Well, I'm sure Pixar's version will be better.
Secondly, and I know I'm overthinking this but... there's a bit of an infinite regress problem here. If all your thoughts are individual people in your head, then where do those homunculus' thoughts come from? Do they have inner-inner people in their heads controlling their different states of, say, sadness? And so on ad infinitum.
I'm still going to watch it and I'm still going to cry though, I'm just sayin'.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)