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The film explores various themes in cognitive science such as perception and evolution.

Man uses meditation to escape his mental illness.

A humanoid hunter starts to wonder what it means to be alive, whether life is born or manufactured.

A Dark Song
A Dark Song (2016)
A: 0.0 Q: 0.0 R: 0.0

A Dark Song is ultimately an investigation of the transformative nature of forgiveness. But it takes you to that inexplicable contemplation quite unexpectedly.

A woman in dire financial distress in a dystopian future chooses to have her consciousness transferred into a younger body to keep her career.

A psychology/philosophy of mind narrative about a man's psychological collapse as every member of society appears to homogenize into repeated units.

it's about peak experience and what it means to be human

Quantum scientists discover a means to transfer motor skills and experiences between people, creating a collective mind that challenges our idea of the self.

Self/less
Self/less (2015)
A: 3.2 Q: 3.3 R: 3.7

A wealthy man transplants his mind into a young donor's body, but the procedure is imperfect, and the man begins seeing signs of body's mysterious origin.

An eleven-year-old's five basic emotions are characters living in her head, and they color her experiences and her memories as she navigates a family move.

A young coder gets invited to visit the world's leading search engine company, but is surprised to be asked to evaluate the human qualities of a new AI.

This movie deals with the question of what constitutes conscious being. In the film, Chappie says "I am consciousness, I am alive, I am Chappie."

A sci-fi thriller intended to draw a contrast between rational and emotional decision making, wrapped-up in a suspenseful tale of alien artificial intelligence.

Autómata
Autómata (2014)
A: 3.5 Q: 3.8 R: 3.6

Jacq Vaucan is an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation who investigates cases of robots violating their primary protocols against harming humans.

Are we responsible for our actions if under the influence of drugs? How can we ever trust another person's explanations?

A coder experiences psychological issues while he works on a philosophical problem disguised as a program and falls in love with a Virtual Reality world.

A clerk in a government agency finds his unenviable life takes a turn for the horrific with the arrival of a new co-worker

Lack of emotions, bipolar characters, use of drugs and placebos, social experimentation.

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