A Price of Survival Under Stress Is Becoming Older
Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey is a story of origins in which we are introduced to a barren landscape cluttered with bones. Apes coexist peacefully with tapirs as they eat. Death and conflict are depicted by a leopard’s kill and the incursion of another group of apes fighting for rights to a waterhole.
At the dawn of a new day, an ape discovers a massive pillar. Its dimensions are in the exact ratio 1 to 4 to 9—the squares of the first three integers. The analogy with Prometheus’ creative fire is unmistakable.
The fire is evident as the sun rises over the monolith. The ape contemplates one bone of many. Music comes up to accompany waving of the bone and its destruction ...
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