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The film comes across as a scientific essay projected on the silver screen, as it probes into technology, human rights law, philosophy and more. Dar\u00edo Gil, IBM\u2019s head of research, takes the filmmaker on a tour of his lab, explaining how nature obeys quantum mechanics and that machines should be built following that example. The married couple Richard Axel (Nobel Prize in Physiology) and Cori Bargmann (neurobiologist known for her work on the genetic and neural circuit in the worm), unveil the way the sense of smell operates in unison with the brain. A.I. expert Tom Gruber, one of the creators of Siri, is asked to put the virtual assistant to the test. Through the various discussions, similarities between humans and other creatures are disclosed, whether it comes to social behaviour patterns or forms of interspecies mutualism.<\/p>\n
We also come to the understanding that both infants (with cartoons) and adolescents (with video games) favour a world of fantasies rather than reality, just as mice prefer virtual realities when hunting crickets.<\/p>\n
Interviewees also include entrepreneurs, mathematicians, surgeons, and wire artist Philippe Petite. The latter became famous for walking between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. In Theater Of Thought<\/i><\/b> he explains the method he uses to ignore fear while performing his acrobatic feats. Our existence, just like for the high wire artist, is a matter of balance between life and death as the mind registers every instant. Herzog\u2019s exploration of this state of being is portrayed not only during the conversations with experts of consciousness, but also through his love for cinema. In fact, he includes footage of a farmer dying on a pile of apples, from the 1930 silent film of the Soviet Union: Earth (\u0417e\u043c\u043b\u044f, Zemlya)<\/i><\/b> directed by Alexander Dovzhenko.<\/p>\n
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What emerges is a profound investigation on the self, whether we can define it factually or through a continuous construction of experiences and memories that get rewired by our brain. There is no truth within our minds. We realise that we somehow invent our lives, as our mind keeps narrating our personal history. And yet at the end of this cinematic research none of the people interviewed can explain exhaustively what a thought is. Nor do we arrive to finding an axiom of emotion. Feelings are too articulate to be broken down into a single essence.<\/p>\n