Humanity In Dr. Berg's Bladerunner

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Our faith and our viewings and beliefs about art have an impact on our life that often goes unnoticed. Sometimes we go about life just letting things into our minds especially in a culture of TV shows and movies, and we are always changing based on what we think about and how we discipline ourselves. Dr. Berg’s session on Bladerunner made me think about the impact of entertainment on how we think about ourselves and humanity. Dr. Berg’s topic was Bladerunner, a science fiction movie about what makes someone human. In a dystopian world with robots that are nearly indistinguishable from humans the director makes decisions to lead you to some conclusion about humanity, and in the 1982 film based on a novel the director has a bias from which you

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