<Commander Powell> Talk to the bomb.
<Doolittle> But I have been talking to it, sir. And Pinback's talking to it right now.
<Commander Powell> No, no, Doolittle. You talk to it.
<Commander Powell> Teach it phenomenology
Oy vey:
> Phenomenology is the philosophical study of objectivity and reality (more generally) as subjectively lived and experienced. It seeks to investigate the universal features of consciousness while avoiding assumptions about the external world, aiming to describe phenomena as they appear to the subject, and to explore the meaning and significance of the lived experiences.[1]
Where I got my BA in philosophy the department head was all about Husserl.
Another philosophy professor from a neighboring college told a number of us about Dark Star. In hindsight I do wonder if it was because of the phenomenology reference, or because they were philosophers who took in 60s/70s/... scifi/speculative fiction.
But somehow that last Cmdr Powell line, with italics, immediately makes me think of Schizopolis.
"Nomenclature"...