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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 - August 22, 2014
#Ferguson
Bryne and JR. welcome two pastors - Josh Butler and Eric Knox - to discuss the mess that is Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown. We examine how the media shapes the story, how the militarization of police feeds the conflict, and the extent to which race and privilege shape and are shaped by the events in Ferguson.
From Series: "Origami Elephants Season 1"
Origami Elephants celebrates the tension between beauty and certainty. Hosts Bryne Lewis and JR. Forasteros tackle the elephants in the room - the topics we either avoid or fight about. Bryne, JR. and their guests choose instead to investigate the elephants, to let them draw us together rather than divide.
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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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