SOMA splits the atom of the soul, dissects it, and scatters its questions into the ocean for us to gobble up like guppies. But that scattering isn’t aimless. It’s targeted, specific, and conditions the player to internalise its horror and carry it with them after the credits roll.

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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:03:46 - Part 1: Conditioning Fear
00:20:10 - Interlude: Carl Semken
00:28:42 - Part 2: Feast Your Eyes
00:45:15 - Interlude: Robin Bass
00:53:47 - Part 3: Taking the World Seriously
01:06:28 - Interlude: Brandon Wan
01:15:39 - Part 4: What If
01:28:30 - Interlude: Simon-2
01:37:00 - Part 5: The Abyss
01:48:42 - Interlude: The WAU
01:56:45 - Part 6: Eternity Among the Stars

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FOOTAGE/READING LIST
1 - Leonardo Da Vinci - Drawings & Anatomical Studies
2 - Joseph Anderson - A Critique of SOMA
3 - 80lvl - Frictional Games on Its History & Developing Horror Games
4 - Engadget - SOMA nearly wasn't a horror game and other secrets from Ian Thomas
5 - CG Magazine - Why SOMA could have been better without its enemies
6 - Smithsonian Magazine - Dogs may be more self-aware than experts thought
7 - Thomas Grip - The Five Foundational Pillar's of SOMA's Design Philosophy
8 - MrBtongue - The Shandification of Fallout
9 - Warner Wirth et al - A Process Model of the Formation of Spatial Presence Experiences
10 - John Green - What does it mean to be Human?
11 - Bill Gates - What does it mean to be Human?
12 - SOMA - Recording Water Sounds
13 - Anil Seth - Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
14 - John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
15 - GameReactor - SOMA: Aaron Clifford Interview
16 - Jason's Video Game Source - SOMA - Upsilon Shuttle Station: Amy "It Won't Let Me Die" Dialogue Power On Shuttle Station Gameplay
17 - NI Science Festival - Anil Seth presents Being You
18 - Brainspotting (2000) - Derek Parfit on Personal Identity
19 - Samuel Justice - SOMA: Behind the Sound
20 - The Escapist - SOMA (Zero Punctuation)
21 - Visa Kurki - A Theory of Legal Personhood
22 - Dr Sam Parnia - Does consciousness continue after our brain dies?
23 - Adrien Owen - Search for Consciousness
24 - New Zealand's Human River - Whanganui has been granted Legal Status
25 - The Boxer and the Goalkeeper - Andy Martin
26 - Straw Animals - John Gray
27 - A Brief History of the Soul - Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro
28 - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison
29 - Treatise on Human Nature - David Hume
30 - Soul Machine - George Makari
31 - Carl Jung - Aion

MUSIC (in order of use)
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1 - Yehezkel Raz - Shallow Water
2 - SOMA Soundtrack - End Credits
3 - Yehezkel Raz - After You Came
4 - Yehezkel Raz - Tiding
5 - Adi Goldstein - Shifting Memories
6 - Yehezkel Raz - Finding My Memories (Instrumental)
7 - Stanley Gurvich - Neural Purge
8 - Raz Burg - Star Surfing
9 - Muted - Staring
10 - Eleven Tales - Slow Tides
11 - DJ Taz Rashid - Twilight
12 - Ty Simon - Deep Dive
13 - Jameson Nathan Jones - Time Will Wait for Me
14 - Adi Goldstein - Ocean Voyage
15 - MARLOE. - Recognise