The Thinker (Computer)

The Thinker is Rapture Mainframe's Artificial Intelligence (AI).

History
Created by Charles Milton Porter and located in Rapture Central Computing, also known as "Minerva's Den", this supercomputer controls all Rapture Security Systems from the Security Cameras to the Security Bots. As Rapture descended into madness, Porter's friend and colleague, Reed Wahl, attempted to seize the Thinker's program and triggered a war independent of the greater civil conflict in the city.

Video
thumb|right|260px|The Thinker, featured in the trailer for Bioshock 2's DLC: Minerva's Den

Trivia

 * The Thinker may be a reference to the General, a super computer with an Artificial Intelligence from the British television series The Prisoner originally aired from 67 to 68. Like The Thinker, the General has answer to everything.
 * One of the recent screenshots which has splicer grafitti saying "THE THINKER KNOWS" might very well be a reference to the 1930s American radio serial, wikipedia:The Shadow whose famous tagline was, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows..."