Ex-Machina (2014): the Rationality of Consciousness within the Cinema

  • Julio César López-Valdés
    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (U.N.A.M). Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México (México). jc.lopz[at]live.com
  • Laura Mestre-Orozco
    Departamento de Anatomía Patológica. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Cuajimalpa, Ciudad de México (México).

Abstract

Throughout our existence, human beings have had the tendency to seek answers to everything. For this reason, the search and origin of our ability to determine our own consciousness and where it lies has not been left aside. The term theory of mind has been coined to determine our ability to infer mental states in other subjects from our experiences. Thanks to the growing need to transmit concepts of new origin to many people, cinema has been very useful for mass education and open to the public. This is how in 2015 the British film “Ex machina” has presented, written, and directed by Alex Garland; where we observe how the protagonist, who works as a droid scout, crosses the activities of the Turing test to fall into a game of manipulation that is based on the determination of the Theory of Mind. Within the film we are spectators of the summarized temporality that warns of the chronology of development, the relationships and circumstances in daily life that give rise to its improvement and consequent development of the theory of mind, all this exemplified by the adaptation of an intelligence artificial humanoid appearance.
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López-Valdés, J. C., & Mestre-Orozco, L. (2024). Ex-Machina (2014): the Rationality of Consciousness within the Cinema. Journal of Medicine and Movies, 20(2), 167–174. https://doi.org/10.14201/rmc.26196

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