12/26/2023 0 Comments Digital sentience the matrix![]() Lastly, the article also touches on the modern paradox of AI which further reinforces the fact that humans might not be as unique as imagined. Through the declination of his emotion, loss of his agency and becoming an overpowered program, viewers find it difficult to identify Neo as a human at the end of the film given the absence of conventional human traits. The line between what makes man and machine different eventually becomes blurred – we see a human becoming machine-like. Challenging the pre-established notion that Neo and Smith are opposites and antithetical, the article explores how there is an unnoticed role reversal mechanism in the film through Neo’s dehumanization and Smith’s humanization. He is opposed by his nemesis Agent Smith, a sentient computer program in the Matrix which tries to stop Neo from revealing the truth about the Matrix. The film focuses on the protagonist Neo, the promised Messiah who eventually liberates humankind. Set in the context of a post-apocalyptic world, humans are unknowingly enslaved by sentient machines in a simulated reality. The Reversal discusses the underlying convergence and overlap in the distinctive features of Neo and Smith in The Matrix (1999). The second article, The Reversal, by Neo Wei Bin Kelvin touches on Artificial Intelligence, a subject matter which directly addresses the issues revolving the malleability of humanity. This further reinforces the article’s thesis that apes have indeed acquired human-level sentience. It also explores the constant juxtaposition of the ape civilisation against human civilisation in the film which illustrates the subversion of nature and to some extent, the role reversal between humans and apes. The article discusses how the apes, with the help of anthropomorphic characterisation and computer-generated images, have achieved a level of sentience comparable with that of a typical human being. Dawn portrays the apes’ fleeting success in establishing a harmonious civilisation as it is soon sabotaged by a spiteful ape who seeks retribution for the harm previously inflicted upon by the humans. The Apepocalypse examines the depiction of sentience among the super-intelligent apes in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), who are genetically enhanced by a virus that wipes out most of the human population. A sentient being in this article refers to one that possesses cognitive and emotional intelligence that allows oneself to achieve higher order thinking. The first opinion article, The Apepocalypse, by Goh Wei Shern, explores the topic of sentience, an attribute that uniquely identify humans from other beings. For example, if we differentiate humanity by its sentience and capacity for reason, does it mean that a species which usurps this preeminence becomes more human? And if we define humanity by our unique set of emotions, how do we then account for instances where human characters become less emotional than machine characters? The changes in the behaviour and interactions of different characters in these texts evince a statement of what it means for one to be human when placed in these circumstances. By subjecting their cast of characters to the tensile test of catastrophe, the texts analysed by our selection of articles discuss situations where the primacy of mankind has been displaced, and a new social order is precipitated. A selection of articles has been carefully curated to discuss various perspectives and aspects of human social interaction when confronted with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic circumstances. In this issue, we examine the dynamics of human behaviour underneath the apocalyptic conditions presented by different pieces of fiction, to tease out what these texts have to say about the traits and qualities that make one human. We are pleased to present you our 6th issue.
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