<오토마타>에 나타난 기계의 자의식과 포스트휴먼의 도래 = Self-Awareness of Machines and the Advent of Posthumans in Automata

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Despite the interesting existentialist questions Gabe Ibáñez’s 2014 Automata raises, it has not garnered very much attention by either from film critics or from the general public. With this in mind, this study attempts to reevaluate Automata from a post-humanist perspective. More precisely this study questions the true meaning of human identity in a epoch where artificial intelligence is rapidly become more advanced and ubiquitous. Central to this line of questioning is the notion of ‘self-awareness’. To be self-conscious is considered to be an exclusively human characteristic. However, in a post-human context artificial intelligence could also be considered to be ‘self-aware’. This raises existential questions about what it means to be human and whether we are moving towards a new ‘posthuman’ paradigm. It is this question that this study will endeavour to answer in relation to Automata and more broadly speaking to society overall. First of all, this study looks at how artificial intelligence is employed with the construction of robots that are designed to deal with environmental disasters. This interaction leads to conflict between the robots and humans in the film, resulting in an inevitable societal collapse. It is within this space that a new era of posthumans can emerge. Automata can be understood as a film that depicts the disintegration of traditional anthropocentrism in three aspects. The film asserts that a posthuman world is unavoidable consequence of artificial intelligence. It is important to note, however, that its post-human perspective is not one of cyborgs where biological humans no longer exist but of a world where both humans and machines continue to coevolve, a society where humans superiority is no longer taken for granted.