At the heart of Part 3 (titled The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey) is Bill Hamilton, a scientist. He argued that human behaviour is really guided by codes buried deep within us–a theory later popularised by Richard Dawkins as the “selfish gene”. It said that individual human beings are really just machines whose only job is to make sure the codes are passed on for eternity. This final part begins in 2000 in the jungles of the Congo and Rwanda, where Hamilton is to help prove his dark theories. But all around him the Congo is being torn apart. The film then interweaves the two stories – the strange roots of Hamilton’s theories, and the history of the West’s tortured relationship with the Congo and technology. thoughtmaybe/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/
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