At 165 pounds, and allegedly made from the skins of 160 donkeys, the Codex Gigas is the world's largest and most mysterious medieval manuscript. Filled with satanic images and demonic spells, according to legend, the cursed text sprang from a doomed monk's pact with the Devil.
This film by Ken Gumbs tackles the issue of pending greater-than-human artificial intelligence and the possible ramifications. Different individuals with different backgrounds are interviewed on the subject, including a theologian, a philosopher, a brain builder and a cyborg. A wide spectrum of topics are discussed, including trans-humanism, mind-machine mergers, uploading, and artificial super-intelligence.
This documentary traces the roots of religious beliefs. It investigates the facts that, is religious stories are made up by people for explaining natural phenomenon like volcanic eruptions, floods and storms. They trace back these stories to the ancient civilizations like Egyptians, Roman et cetera and the connections between Christianity, Jew, eastern civilizations et cetera to find out are the religious scripts and stories are of truth or a misconception.
