John Wayne Highlands, fierce fighters against communism, bestowed on Wayne a brass bracelet that he wore in the film and all subsequent films. Wayne finally won a Best Actor Oscar for "True Grit" (1969), two decades after his only other nomination. Wayne took on the role of the eponymous detective in the crime drama "McQ" (1974). His last film was "The Shootist" (1976), whose main character, J. B. Books, was dying of cancer—which Wayne himself succumbed to three years later. "The Shootist" (1976) contains numerous plot similarities to "The Gunfighter" of nearly thirty years before, a role which Wayne had wanted but
The Fable of Oscar they are "being self-aware and being conscious". In the end of the fable Pollock states that while the Engineers are fictional, Oscar is real and we are in fact the Oscarites. The Fable of Oscar The Fable of Oscar is a fable proposed by John L. Pollock in his book "How to Build a Person" () to defend the idea of token physicalism, agent materialism, and strong AI. It ultimately illustrates what is needed for an Artificial Intelligence to be built and why humans are just like intelligent machines. Once in a distant land there lived a race of Engineers.