![]() Mike Scott, writing for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, said, 'It's a theme Mary Shelley brought us in Frankenstein, which was first published in 1818. Wanting total creative freedom, and without having to add conventional action sequences, Garland made the film on as small a budget as possible. ![]() Other inspirations came from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Altered States, and books written by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ray Kurzweil and others. Besides the Turing test, the film references the 'Chinese room' thought experiment, as well as Mary's room, a thought experiment about a scientist who has studied, but never experienced, the concept of color. Shanahan, along with Adam Rutherford, became a consultant for the film, and the ISBN of his book is referred to as an easter egg in the film. The idea was written down and put aside until later. During the pre-production of Dredd, while going through a book by Murray Shanahan about consciousness and embodiment, Garland had an 'epiphany'. ![]() Trying to find an answer on his own, he started reading books on the topic. ![]() His later ideas came from years of discussions he had been having with a friend with an expertise in neuroscience, who claimed machines could never become sentient. The foundation for Ex Machina was laid when Garland was 11 or 12 years old, after he had done some basic coding and experimentation on a computer his parents had bought him and which he sometimes felt had a mind of its own. ![]()
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