Film 4: They're Made Out of Meat

This is a  difficult film to interpret. The two aliens find the idea of life forms composed of corporeal matter to be completely odd. This makes us wonder about their form of existence but as they appear as human we have no idea about the way in which they are embodied (or not). Given that the aliens find the human form so strange one might conjecture that there is something remarkable about the fact of corporeal existence. The fact that humans can function as they do - with all their senses and abilities - can be interpreted as something of a marvel. This can raise the question of just what it means to be corporeal. For example, we are subject to sickness, old age and death. Our faculties decline with age and if we live past approximately 80 years old then existence is extremely limited. We can then ask whether we can conceive of existing in other ways. Perhaps part machine, part body. In some ways we are already at that stage with e.g. pacemakers, replacement hips and so on.