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Dissociative Identity Disorder, from Wikipedia:

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) […] is a mental illness in which a single person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment.

To date, my only good idea for a film proposes a future where the world’s first sophisticated artificial intelligence emerges as a biological entity - as supposed to a digital one. I’m using “artificial” loosely here as it isn’t designed or engineered in any way. No androids, no positronic brains. And this AI isn’t negotiating some sort of artificial life/organism, but instead develops organically within the minds of humans.

In 2048 an astonishing amount of our day-to-day living takes place “online” via our virtual identities. But these carefully crafted idealized projections of our real-world selves are not quite us. They behave differently in social contexts. They have their “own patterns of perceiving and interacting with the “environment”. But their environment is digital. And the hyper-intricate interactions and relationships these identities engage in force our brains to develop separate neural networks to accommodate the profusion of memories, emotions and behaviors necessary to support our alter egos. In a sense, our brains start to “disassociate” our Facebook profiles. This all cascades to a point where some extreme cases no longer exhibit a single, dominant identity; and their “virtual” egos, totally dependent on the computers that facilitate their existence, look for every opportunity to solder flesh with the digital world. Internet is God. Cybernetics is the new Religion. Fabrication replaces Reproduction. Mayhem ensues.

Throw in some of Bach-y-Rita’s Sensory Substitution,

…and Sarcos’ exoskeleton,

…and, well, you get the idea. If anyone is interested in making this movie, gimme a call once the strike is over.