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1 online resource (streaming video file) (50 min. 43 sec.) ; 305802756 bytes |
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All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace is a powerful, provocative three-part series from celebrated filmmaker Adam Curtis (The Power of Nightmares), which argues that humans have unwittingly been colonised by the machines that they have built, seeing everything in the world today through the eyes of computers.Episode 3: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the MonkeyThis final episode looks at why we humans find this machine vision so beguiling. It argues it is because all political dreams of changing the world for the better seem to have failed - so we have retreated into machine-fantasies that say we have no control over our actions because they excuse our failure.At the heart of the film is one of the most famous scientists in the world - Bill Hamilton. He argued that human behaviour is really guided by codes buried deep within us. It was later popularised by Richard Dawkins as 'the selfish gene'. It said that individual human beings are really just machines whose only job is to make sure the codes are passed on for eternity.In 2000, Bill Hamilton was in the jungles of the Congo and Rwanda to prove his theories. But all around him the Congo was being torn apart by war. The program interweaves these two stories - the strange roots of Hamilton's theories, and the history of the West's tortured relationship with the Congo over the past 100 years. (From the UK) (Documentary Series) (Final) M (A) CC |
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Broadcast 2011-11-01 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Dawkins, Richard, 1941-.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Human behavior -- Research.
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IBM computers.
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Information society -- Social aspects.
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Selfish genetic elements.
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Streaming video
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Curtis, Adam, director
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Price, Kathleen, contributor
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Ruse, Michael, contributor
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Schwartz, James, contributor
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Teller, Edward, contributor
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