Future Los Angeles, California is where Spike Jonze’s film “Her” takes place. It focuses on Theodore Twombly, a human, Samantha, an operating system, and their budding romantic relationship with each other. Moreover, it focuses on Samantha’s development throughout the movie including her multiple feelings. She is not human, but Samantha is able to long for a body, feel confusion, heartbreak and apprehension at her own furthering development. Samantha has an inner life complete with sensations and new experiences.
Will artificial intelligence like Samantha soon be capable of consciousness? If so, will human beings be able to upload our consciences to computers and become post human? “Her” raises these types of questions, and rightfully so. In