Sci-Fi Musings and Thinking

I’ve been reading an interesting paper by Nick Bostrom the Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University in which he considers the possibility that we’re not real.  That we are living in a computer simulation developed by a future evolution of the human species studying their own origins.

It’s a subject that has to have crossed the mind of every amateur self-psychoanalysist sci-fi fan.  Anyway, the whole subject got me to thinking how long it’s been since I last saw a sci-fi movie that really made me consider my existence.  Blade Runner, The Matrix, Open Your Eyes, even a film I reckon I might the only person anywhere to like AI.  I have a review round-up coming at the end of the month in which you’ll hear my thoughts on Wall:E.  It’s a film I loved and in the tradition of all of the best sci-fi gets you to consider how you live your own life, albiet in basic terms that can be understood by children.

I do like a film that really has my mind racing in an academic sense something modern sci-fi has almost entirely abandoned.  The last film to really do that to me was the amazing Primer.  Anyone care to recommend another film that sent you in loops?

Update:  There is also a reverse point of view The Truman Show disorder (via BoingBoing)