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Artificial intelligence has imprisoned humanity in a simulation.

Are we living in a computer-generated parallel world?

Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich (1999)
A: 2.2 Q: 4.6 R: 3.5

What would happen if you could control another person's body?

A viewing of the lucidity of the afterlife as a dream/nightmare and concepts of Heaven and Hell is discussed in the imaginary sense.

A topiary gardener, a lion tamer, a naked mole-rat researcher, and an AI researcher discuss attempts to control behavior.

"What am I, human or robot?"

A made-for-television film inspired by and exploring themes from Hofstadter & Dennet's 1981 book "The Mind's I."

An android finds more success building meaningful interpersonal relationships than the reclusive scientist who developed him.

Short Circuit
Short Circuit (1986)
A: 2.3 Q: 4.0 R: 3.3

A robot is electrocuted, becomes intelligent, and escapes.

A bureaucrat, in a retro-future world, tries to correct an administrative error and becomes an enemy of the state.

Scanners
Scanners (1981)
A: 1.9 Q: 4.3 R: 3.3

An underworld of Scanners (with psychic and telekinetic powers) are attempting world domination. A rogue Scanner tries to bring them down.

The technology and morality of interacting with intelligent beings in virtual worlds. The possibility that our world is itself simulated.

Solaris
Solaris (1972 (2002))
A: 3.7 Q: 4.8 R: 4.3

A baffling alien intelligence has been discovered.

A brain-transplant surgery, which would save the benevolent ruler of Kalid, gets botched and the brain ends up in the wrong body.

Topo, El
Topo, El (1970)
A: 3.0 Q: 4.5 R: 3.5

A cult classic in the truest sense, El Topo is a surrealistic journey toward psychological liberation from one's demons and achieving a "higher" understanding.

Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes (1968 (2001))
A: 1.8 Q: 3.6 R: 3.0

Could non-human primates have become sentient?

In the distant future, humans evolve into two very different species.

Vertigo
Vertigo (1958)
A: 4.0 Q: 5.0 R: 4.0

James Stewart questions the nature of reality and has a clinical break. Also great locations in SF, which is important in cognitive science.

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