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The article discusses the problem of recognizing the subjectively alive in an artificial body. Modern ideas about the artificial body are analyzed in various aspects of human activity in relation to the possible “internal” spiritualizing essence of the machine (on the example of works of science fiction and cinema of the XX–XXI cen-turies). The processes of mutual enrichment of the world of people and the world of machines which also act as artificial bodies are being updated. The discovery of some internal essence of the machine becomes possible only with deep understanding of the process of machine and human interpenetration. The author comes to the conclusion that the “essence” that could “fill” and “animate” the machine is something initial-ly inanimate, but later is considered and understood by a person as something alive and animated. Having analyzed the works of science fiction writers the author warns about the danger of a technological turn towards the mass appearance of machines with “anima” but without a spiritual component. The author stresses the critical complexity of the present “machine” civilizational stage connected with the upcoming need of overcoming its own “conveyor nature” and filling the technointellectual processes with human morality as an organizing foundation of social evolution.