2/ To whom is Kris addressing his question/statement : ‘See, I love you!’ ?

‘… emphasis began shifting from “meaning” to “information”, from the construction of meaning to the processing of information. These are profoundly different matters. The key factor in the shift was the introduction of computation as the ruling metaphor and of computability as a necessary criterion of a good theoretical model. Information is indifferent with respect to meaning. In computational terms, information comprises an already precoded message in the system. Meaning is preasigned to messages. It is not an outcome of computation nor is it relevant to computation save in the arbitrary sense of assignment. Information processing inscribes messages at or fetches them from an address in memory on instructions from a central control unit, or it holds them temporarily in a buffer store, and then manipulates them in prescribed ways: it lists, orders, combines, compares precoded information.’ Bruner, Jerome. (1990). Acts of meaning. (Harvard University Press – Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England.) p. 4

‘With mind equated to program, what should the status of mental states be – old-fashioned mental states identifiable not by their programmatic characteristics in a computational system but by their subjective marking? There could be no place for “mind” in such a system-“mind” in the sense of intentional states like believing, desiring, intending, grasping a meaning.’ Bruner, Jerome. (1990). Acts of meaning. (Harvard University Press – Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England.) p. 8

 

Kris is gazing through the window at the ovean – if we consider the mirror metaphor then we can say that he is looking into his own soul. He is waiting for a confirmation after his afirmation, although it is rethorical. He is actually stating that he loves Life, he loves being human… he has tried to Love mankind but it’s as if it didn’t matter in the ‘eyes of mankind’. By comparing himself to Tolstoy he presents his attempt to approach a different view.

His conclusion though is that in the end Tolstoy’s affirmation is confirmed, that it’s difficult to embrace mankind as a whole because of all the differences. In the Library scene Hari is at one point stating that they ‘are all human but in different ways...’ this sums up Kris’s puzzlement, and presents the fact that the intrinsic quality of being human spans and is shaped individually. They each understand Lifde from a different persoective, have different goals, emotions, backgrounds, fears. While Solaris has the ability of metamorphosing ‘itself’ into all the various ‘alien characters’; Visitors – a human being can find trouble understanding the person close to him, even the person that he loves the most. The subtlety is very deep here, but manages to create the contour of Solaris when compared to Kris – the man.