aideas Graham Culbertson

Since at least Mary Shelley, women have been brilliantly writing about minds and consciousness. But very few of them have been "philosophers of mind." I'm not really sure why, but I know it's philosophy's fault
The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis

This episode's guest is Eileen Hunt, a professor of political theory at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Artificial Life after Frankenstein.
Eileen and I discuss a number of topics related to AI and Frankenstein, including:
Mary Shelley's upbringing as the daughter of two radical thinkersThe political and literary influences on the novelThe role of parenting in the novelThe similarities between
The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis

Philosophy used to be the search for wisdom, but it's become a search for certainty. And if you send an AI on a search for certainty, you'll probably create a sociopath
The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis

If sentience means "having senses," then your floodlights that turn on when someone walks by are sentient. But if floodlights are sentient, maybe sentience isn't quite the right word.
The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis

What kind of a weirdo collects dumb things like barbed wire?

Slave actually means Slav. And the word robot is a Slavic word. It means slave.
Here's the article about American slavery that I mentioned by Nell Irvin Painter: How We Think About the Term "Enlsaved" Matters