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Given the glut of new films about Artificial Intelligence, Bryne and JR. ask what counts as consciousness. We revisit Chappie, dive deeply into Ex Machina, and touch on Age of Ultron, Terminator: Genesys, Her, Avatar and Stephen King’s The Jaunt. Packed with listern questions, we are ready to welcome our robot overlords!
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2:30 – Welcome, Robot Overlords!
4:00 – What is Consciousness?
8:00 – Ex Machina
31:00 – Consciousness and Sentience
34:00 – Why are the robots always malevolent?
39:30 – Materialism or Dualism?
52:o0 – Head Transplant?
1:11:30 – If you could upload your consciousness, would you?
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Origami Elephants - June 10, 2016
Gorillas in the Zoo with Tripp York
Bryne and JR. welcome author and professor Tripp York to discuss the recent death of Harambe the gorilla at the Cincinnati zoo. Bringing insights from his book THE END OF CAPTIVITY to bear, Tripp invites us to consider the very nature of zoos - and the animal kingdom.
From Series: "Origami Elephants Season 3"
Bryne and JR. return with more topics, more guests and more movies (probably). Listen up and weigh in, as always!
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Essay: “What Mary Didn’t Know”
Essay: “What it is Like to Be a Bat” by Thomas Nagel
Article: First Human Head Transplant
Review: Ex Machina and What it Might Mean to be Human
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