nano-gloop of pure information

(Spoilers!) Is Scarlet Jo emerging as the poster girl for Transhumanism in mainstream cinema? That's the second film I've watched this year where she becomes the mythical, tech-assisted transcendental consciousness of materialist dreams (we prefer to catch them late round here). Following her inspired voicing of the sentient Operating System in Spike Jonze's Her, that sees her 'character' expand into infinity in the third act, in Luc Besson's Lucy she enacts a similar denouement after an accidentally imbibed superdrug boosts her mind beyond its bodily limits, becoming a kind of nano-gloop of pure information sucked from global digital connectivity (which is portrayed as a good thing, by the way).

Transhumanism, partly an over-excitable projection of the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (see recent Wire article for a sober update of progress), represents the emergence of a natural human yearning for cosmic completeness in a secular culture which has colonised even spiritual discourse (see this most obvious example). It accompanies a widespread interest in Meditation and its decaffeinated cousin, Mindfulness (with or without physical yoga, with or without the technical assistance of an app), the emergence of antidotal practice in the face of the stress and anxiety of modern, urban life. All of which provides a fertile ground for a deeper emergence of ideas about the nature of reality which expose the entirely limited nature of materialism as a presiding philosophical discourse.

Added: from here: "In this vision the Internet and web are just the first rung of a ladder that leads to neural implants, sentient computers, nanotechnology and eventually the Singularity, that mystical moment when progress happens so quickly that all of humanity's problems disappear"

Pic from here