Ex Machina Movie Review

Nicholas Carr’s article titled Is Google Making us Stupid was written to deliver an urgent message to the reader. Carr’s purpose for writing this article was to inform the masses of the potential dangers in how new technologies change the ways our minds work. He is trying to warn us how writing has reduced our capability to remember details in our heads, just like the internet has been able to change the way our brains store, acquire, and handle information. The author makes the argument that Carr makes a reference to the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey. In his reference he tells the reader about the HAL computer who uncannily perfectly expresses human emotion, as it shares its concern that its data banks and artificial brain is being shut down

In the short story, “Evil Robot Monkey,” author Mary Robinette Kowal uses human characteristics exhibited by Sly, a chimpanzee, to depict the theme of questioning what truly makes us human. Many people have speculated on what makes us human. Some methods it has typically been classified through are intelligence, creativity, control over emotions, creation of art. The concern is caused by Sly demonstrating all of these traits, which pushes us to question what being a human truly is, generating the fear that Sly, although regarded by some to be a primitive being, may be human.

There is no denying that the film, Aftershock, directed by Feng Xiaogang is the most bankable domestic blockbusters in mainland China and wins the box office of more than six hundred million in 2010 (Coonan, 2010). It reproduces the grave earthquake took place in Tangshan, Hebei Province on July 28, 1976. Such a 7.8 magnitude earthquake turned Tangshan into ruins in only twenty-three seconds and caused 250 thousands death. The successful release of the film has caused the high attention and intense discussion among the community until nowadays. As an excellent work of contemporary Chinese realism film, it moves audiences through its setting, expression, characters and also the touching plot.

Both Dennett and the technicians in the story decided that both the original brain, Yorick, and the computer “brain”, Hubert, are the same. They both have the same thoughts and react in synchrony. Philosopher John Locke would

50 First Dates – Movie This movie is a romantic and comedic film done in 2004. The movie stars actress Drew Barrymore as Lucy who is an amnesiac. The term amnesiac means partial or total loss of memory, usually resulting from shock, psychological disturbance, brain injury, or illness. In Lucy’s case she suffered from a brain injury called Goldfield Syndrome which is fictional and not a real diagnosed term. In the movie Lucy and her father had a serious car accident and left Lucy with anterograde amnesia, and because of that she wakes up every morning thinking it is the same day of the accident without any recollection of the accident.

Conclusion: The mind is substantively different from the body and indeed matter in general. Because in this conception the mind is substantively distinct from the body it becomes plausible for us to doubt the intuitive connection between mind and body. Indeed there are many aspects of the external world that do not appear to have minds and yet appear none the less real in spite of this for example mountains, sticks or lamps, given this we can begin to rationalize that perhaps minds can exist without bodies, and we only lack the capacity to perceive them.

Fearful and terrified, the people of the United States walk around with false faces to hide their selves. Every day the people tell themselves that they are strong when they are not. Evey Hammond, the female lead in Wachowskis’s dystopian film V for Vendetta, is a character who changes from an ignorant submissive girl into a conscious bold woman who can stand on her own. The catalysts for this change was the abduction by V. Using intricate symbols, well put together film styles, and a complex plot line, the audience can connect with Evey Hammond, and understand her metamorphosis.

In the book Unwind By Neal Shusterman It takes place in a future but not the future we think of with hover crafts and aliens. The most interesting thing is how human life is dealt with. Storking is a common practice in this society. This is when somebody puts a baby on a porch, knocks and it is someone else 's problem... unless you are caught and then you must take it back. Unwinding people is also a common practice.

The 1986 movie Top Gun, directed by renowned director Tony Scott, is a movie made particularly memorable due to its outstanding cast, amazing visuals, and character-based storyline. The movie stars acclaimed actor Tom Cruise, who plays the role of wildcard pilot Maverick, and Kelly McGillis who plays the role of Maverick 's instructor and love interest Charlie. The film centres on happy-go-lucky pilot Maverick (as played by Tom Cruise) as he attempts to acquire the highly coveted "Top Gun" award at a US Navy fighter pilot school in California with his best friend and co-pilot Goose (as played by Anthony Edwards). Moreover, Maverick begins to form a romantic relationship with his instructor Charlie (as played by Kelly McGillis).

In Alan Turing’s paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, he proposes a thought experiment that would eventually be tested, and even later be beaten. He describes an experiment where a man and a woman are in two different rooms and an outside observer has to guess at the sexes of the participants. He then suggests that one of the participants be replaced with a computer. Once humanity is unable to tell the difference and will guess that the computer is human at the same rate that it will guess that it is a machine will answer Turing’s thesis of, “Can machines think?’ (434).

“Science fiction are quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative that include fantastic places, new technology, extraordinary monsters and futuristic elements and technologies that explore issues. It often expresses the potential of technology to destroy humankind particularly when technology or alien life forms become malevolent, Sci-fi films often feature multiple genres as well as sub-genres” . Ex Machina being a sci-fi film, is specifically a part of the artificial intelligence (AI) subgenre. In this sub-genre it is assumed “that one, or many, artificial minds become fully sentient ... Artificial intelligence can perform tasks requiring intelligent behaviour...

The movie comedy-drama movie Forrest Gump was released in 1994. The director of the movie was Robert Zemeckis, and the screenwriter was Eric Roth. The music at the start of the movie is called "Feather Theme" and the person who composed the song is Alan Silvestri. The main actors are Tom Hanks who played the main character Forrest Gump when he was grown up, and Michael Connor Humphreys who played young Forrest Gump.

Our Self, our conscious mind, is unity and harmony; the understanding of our psyche. Le Guin argues anyone who confronts these ideas is very creative and successful. She also states that we need to balance our conscious Self with our unconscious self, for our human bodies to be physically balanced. Her essay is concluded that if anyone disagrees with any of these philosophical thoughts, then they practice escapism. Denying what we humans are and the trials and tribulations we endure throughout life.

We then start to see the world “as it is”, and not as we expect it to be, or want it to be, or what we fear it might be! It consists of starting to focus our attention on our breath, as it flows in and out of the body. We are then able to observe our thoughts as they arise in our mind, and realise that these thoughts come and go on their own, like the wandering clouds in

There are not permitted a place in calculative ‘herd’, which is how most people seem to find their meaning, therefore they must find their meaning elsewhere and are forced to mediate lest they lose their minds... The only way meditative thought could be entirely eradicated is if mankind as a species ceases entirely to cast some individuals out of the social collective.”