Blade Runner

THE MOVIE “ARRIVAL” AND ITS CORRELATION TO PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Arrival is a science-fiction film with a linguist named Louise as its protagonist. Working together with Ian, a physicist, she has to find a way to successfully communicate with extra-terrestrial beings that have landed on Earth before all hell breaks loose. The film shows several interesting psycholinguistics aspects, with the prominent one being the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis particularly linguistic determinism. The portrayal of the…

The Incompetence of an Advanced Alien Race Dark City is a sci-fi film by Proyas in 1998. The film is about an alien race, the strangers, facing extinction and making one last attempt at survival. The strangers, for some unknown reason, believe that the key to their survival lies somewhere in humanity. In a grand scale experiment they attempt to extract/analyze/duplicate certain traits of humanity only to be thwarted and defeated by an unruly test subject. Good science is hard. Even with a…

In his novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Ship?” an American writer Philip K. Dick takes aim at what it is to be human and how to recognize one among androids. Dick introduces the Voigt-Kampff machine to serve as an interrogation tool to distinguish humans from androids. By examining the depictions of various characters – humans and androids, we can see Dick is arguing that Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test is implausible and doesn’t make any sense from the humane and ethical perspective. In general,…

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K. Dick introduces another bounty hunter, Phil Resch, who joins to work with Rick Deckard. Although they both originally believe to share the same motives, Deckard soon discovers that his interpretation of empathy is different from Resch's. His new perspective challenges the idea of whether or not empathy should be the characteristic that defines the human experience. Phil Resch is the ideal bounty hunter. He doesn't ever feel any remorse for the…

Science fiction could be described as a realm of fantasy in which the possibilities of the future are explored and the past is rewritten but are there other reasons as well? Authors of this genre write science fiction novels for varying reasons, some might write science fiction for the enjoyment and pleasing of an audience with their imagination or others like Phillip K. Dick might do it to share and explain their philosophical ideas. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" not only entertains its…

Introduction The Matrix is a popular American-Australian science fiction movie that was first produced in 1999. The action movie depicts a unique dystopian future where the human-perceived reality is seen as a stimulated reality known as “the Matrix”. This stimulated reality created by sentient machines was designed to subdue the human population and use the heat and electrical activity of the human bodies as source of energy. A computer programmer known as “Neo” discovered the secret behind the…

The movie that i watched and reminds me about Artificial Intelligence and robotics is the classic science fiction film TERMINATOR 2 and shows us what we have still to learn about Artificial Intelligence.Terminator 2 tells the story of two cyborgs sent back in time from the future,one is the T800 which is living tissue over metal endoskeleton which was performed by the most iconic role Arnold Schwarzenegger to protect the future leader of the human resistance;the other (the T1000, a more advanced…

In Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, humans and androids stand in direct opposition with one another: they must destroy each other to maintain their existence on a dystopic Earth with an ever-dwindling population. With this being said, the distinctions between dehumanized humans and humanized androids seem to grow smaller all the time, creating a cause for concern for both humans and androids alike, begging questions of what it means to be human, what it is to…

HλLF-LIFE Half-Life, a science fiction first person shooter developed by Valve Corporation, it was their first video game to be released. At the time Valve was creating this game they were an unknown game company. It was very hard for Valve to find a publisher but they had what Sierra Entertainment wanted, a game based on the Quake engine, later signing Valve on a one-game deal. The game was released on November 8, 1998, on Windows, PlayStation 2, OSX, and Linux. Developed on the GoldSrc…

The War of the Worlds, was released July 19th, 1953 and was directed by Byron Haskin, is a Disaster/ Science Fiction film. It takes place in Victorian Era England in 1953, but the movie is in Southern California. The War of the Worlds, was released June 29th, 2005 and was directed by Steven Spielberg. It is a Drama/action/fiction/thriller film. Both of these movies were good for their time and themselves both had good plots. In this paper, I will discuss the good and bad of both movies in…