Date: January 21, 2015
"Why aren't we just brilliant robots, capable of retaining information, of responding to noises and smells and hot saucepans, but dark inside, lacking an inner life?"
preview | full record— Burkeman, Oliver (b. 1975)
Date: January 21, 2015
"Evolution might have produced creatures that were atom-for-atom the same as humans, capable of everything humans can do, except with no spark of awareness inside."
preview | full record— Burkeman, Oliver (b. 1975)
Date: January 21, 2015
"Yet there's no reason to assume that our brains will be adequate vessels for the voyage towards that answer."
preview | full record— Burkeman, Oliver (b. 1975)