Human/non-Human
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Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) portrays a futuristic world where the central question revolves around what it means to be human, which is problematized against the backdrop of the mass production of human-like replicants by a capitalist enterprise named the Tyrell Corporation. The purpose of the Tyrell Corporation is to provide the muscle and workforce… Read more
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Alex Garland’s debut science fiction film Ex Machina (2015) attempts to foresee the consequences of an artificially intelligent gynoid that can pass the Turing test, pointing beyond the mere simulation of human traits toward the possibility of machine consciousness. Ava, the gynoid, is designed with a “fluid” mind capable of processing millions of permutations of… Read more
