Over two episodes, the pair reflected over themes including technology, human consciousness, celebrity, parenthood, Doogie Howser, canine pleasure and the clutter of the mind.
While we continue to push back the frontiers of knowledge, most recently in digital technology, our consciousness remains hard-wired with some very primitive storylines.
So you're sitting on the edge of your seat, but maybe you're also resting your chin in your hand, as you ponder technology, intelligence, consciousness, humanity, who we are and how we live now, and so on.
Society's been transformed by new forms of technology: where consciousness can be digitized and human bodies are interchangeable.
Unlike the more character-driven "Playtest," eXistenZ is a dense, far-reaching statement about biology, technology, and consciousness, asking whether our true identity can be found in the characters we pretend to be.
David Shaw combines manmade materials (steel, glass, holographic laminate) with found, natural objects (most often tree branches without bark) to create sculpture that explores the indistinct boundaries between nature, technology, and consciousness.
More, instead of juxtaposing technology and consciousness, science and morality as James Cameron did in Avatar, director Christopher Nolan panders to our primitive urge to resort to fantasy rather than reality when facing the very problems that have put humanity in its current pickle.
De Chardin described the Future Earth as a 'noosphere' (Greek word 'nous' = mind and 'sphaira' = sphere), which encompasses interrelated technologies and consciousness (Levinson, 2011; Peters & Heraud, 2015).
An undeniably daunting slab of high modernist prose, without such concessions as speech marks or paragraph breaks, it's also a brilliantly absorbing and audacious meditation on madness, consciousness, technology, war and the mess of the 20th century.
"I've been lobbying both the BBC and ITV to say one of the most dramatic things that I think we could do would be to have a proper storyline about technology in public consciousness.
