I think "They" are AI from the future. If you reconstruct the movie with this idea it eliminates every paradox. The movie begins with Cooper and his children capturing a drone with highly efficient solar panels. The solar panels suggest that machines can live longer than human beings as they do not need food, and instead are efficiently powered by solar energy.The film plays with the idea of an artificial "humor setting" over and over again. Study AI and you realize that humor is one of the great frontiers of AI technology. A machine that understands humor and knows how to use a seemingly illogical human expression is a machine that is artificially intelligent, therefore, TARS is an early AI.In the original timeline, humanity did go fully extinct, however, they left behind AI (powered by solar energy) which evolved to a point where it could carry out the prime directive as determined by Isaac Asimov. This law of robotics is:A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.In short, humanity went extinct, and was resurrected from the dead by AI. The film makes reference to The Lazarus Missions repeatedly."Lazarus of Bethany, also known as Saint Lazarus, or Lazarus of the Four Days, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Righteous Lazarus, the Four-Days Dead, is the subject of a prominent sign of Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death."https://ift.tt/3uh07ex resurrection orchestrated by AI as it opened the wormhole from a distant future, saving humanity, and more. One of the first hints alluding to the gravity anomaly are Cooper's harvesting machines when they return home, organizing themselves in apparent formation in front of the house.The interplay between TARS and Cooper throughout the film suggests that they need each other to complete the mission. By the end of the film a bond between TARS and Cooper is formed, a bond of friendship, but, it is a bond that is not as powerful as the human bond between Murphy and Cooper. The power of love is what the AI needed in order to bridge the gap between Cooper and Murphy when Cooper was in the tesseract. This is a bond that no human could feel / establish with a machine, thus, the AI needed a human bond and used Cooper and Murphy to fulfill its objective. Cooper was ready to sacrifice TARS and referred to him as a robot, however, he did everything in his power to save Murphy. A clear distinction in the love shared by man and machine, and human with human.This theory completely eliminates every paradox in the film, most notably, why would future human beings need to manipulate space and time to save themselves if they were already alive to do it? Also, how could future humans exist unless a wormhole was opened in the first place? This is inexplicable until you focus on TARS. If you re-watch the film with the AI theory in mind, it becomes apparent that man needs machine, and machine needs man, and it is logical for AI to save humanity for reasons which aid the machine. This is demonstrated when Cooper attempts to dock with the damaged Endurance, TARS questions Cooper and states that it is "impossible" based on his analysis of the situation. Cooper responds, "No, it's necessary." This is the key difference between man and machine. The human being will go beyond the impossible to the possible. A human being will create the logical out of the illogical.Finally, in the tesseract, TARS was the only one capable of reading the gravitational data to transmit to Murphy, through Cooper. TARS deduced that it was pointless to send the data to Murphy as she was just a child. This is an independent thought, again demonstrating that TARS is AI. Cooper as the human steps in to complete the mission by doing the impossible using love as the catalyst, trusting, and knowing that his and Murphy's connection will bridge the gap. TARS extracted the solution form the event horizon and explained what the tesseract was, but ultimately, he needed Cooper to complete the mission by doing something he thought was illogical. TARS filled in the blanks for Cooper, and Cooper filled in the blanks for TARS. A codependency between man and machine, a logical reason for AI to save humanity as the relationship favors both.Keep in mind, you only know TARS is there by the sound of his voice and never see him. By the end of the film, Cooper began to look at TARS as a person and not just a machine, and this established a unique timeline which took man and machine to a new frontier together. This is symbolized by Cooper and TARS leaving the past behind (The station orbiting Saturn), as they are both from the future and will both rejoin Brand who is waiting for them there. There is a clear connection between Brand and Cooper established throughout the film that begins to encroach on love. This is exactly how the AI knew how to send Cooper back through the worm hole, and used the bridge between Cooper and Brand in exactly the same way it used the bridge between Cooper and Murphy. This theme is clearly repeated in the emerging love between Cooper and Brand as symbolized by their hands touching as they pass each-other in the wormhole. If you recall, TARS and Cooper both realize that although "They", the AI, can manipulate gravity through time, they don't know how to make sense of it. Human beings act as the soul and the eyes for the machine, and thus, are essential to the machine.When Cooper arrives at the secret NASA station with Murph for the first time, TARS is the first to greet them, foreshadowing their relationship as only the three of them are in the scene. Notice how you only hear his voice. In the climactic scene which saves humanity, you also only hear the voice of TARS but never see him. Both scenes begin in darkness, and both end in blinding light. In their first scene, TARS renders Cooper unconscious in the dark and illuminates Murphy with light. In the climactic scene between the 3 of them, Cooper is in the tesseract / removed from Murphy's life (in the darkness) but she is once again enlightened by an invisible being (TARS providing gravitational data), through a "Ghost", whom is Cooper, the "soul" of the machine.TARS is not revealed in either scene and yet he is present, a clear symbol of the non revealed AI from the future, who came in darkness, with flashes of light (Also, think of Cooper falling into the tesseract and then being instructed to "Eject" by a machine (his ship). TARS entered Cooper and Murphy's life for the first time with flashes of light. In conclusion, Future AI created the relationship between TARS, Cooper, and Murphy to successfully bring humanity back from the dead after they went extinct. The movie ends with Brand in her "brand new" home, on Edmunds planet, confirming that love was the binding force, the ghost in the shell. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2W3KKcB
