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A robot/AI rears a girl in an underground facility after extinction of humans but their relationship is endangered with the arrival of a stranger and her news.

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

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."

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

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

A girl is separated from her dog, who searches the city for his lost owner, but when that fails, the dog leads an army of other lost dogs, in a canine uprising.

I Origins
I Origins (2014)
A: 1.3 Q: 2.3 R: 1.7

May reincarnation has a scientific explanation? what if creation and evolution coexist together? Great movie regarding the concept, art, acting,

Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee (2012)
A: 0.0 Q: 0.0 R: 0.0

An ultimately-feel-good DisneyNature documentary about a wild chimp who is "adopted" by his group's alpha male after a rival group kills his mother.

An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of higher intelligence in apes.

The story of a chimpanzee who was raised as a human child.

An autistic woman becomes an expert in animal husbandry owing to her insight into their mental experience, and develops a therapy for autism using farm tools.

Aggressive interplanetary miners clash with indigenous aliens. We engineer alien bodies controlled remotely; aliens can plug their brains into stuff.

A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.

Idiocracy
Idiocracy (2006)
A: 3.4 Q: 3.3 R: 2.8

A participant in a classified military human hibernation experiment wakes up 500 years later to find that the world has devolved to idiocracy. Hilarity ensues.

Hardware
Hardware (1990)
A: 2.3 Q: 3.7 R: 3.0

The head of a cyborg reactivates and rebuilds itself and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.

Heavily influenced by Henri Laborit scientific work, illustrates how human behavior (emotions and decisions) with actual footage of lab experiments with rats!

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.

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