http://www.radiolab.org/2011/may/31/
What can machines tell us about being human? This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert meet humans and robots who are trying to connect, and blur the line.
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Circuitry in Humans
Toward the end of class today, there was an interesting discussion about the point in the novel that I found to be the most intriguing. In Winterson’s novel Stone Gods, much like all of our other texts thus far in this class, the concept of what makes one “human” seems to be interwoven throughout. Specifically, there is one short excerpt of the novel, which was discussed in class, which focuses directly on this concept. Continue reading
Post-Human Relationships
I think a question that has been running throughout my mind since the beginning of this semester is how do we, as humans, perceive androids or the “not-human” beings of technological creation in a Post-Human world? This formulates a series of questions that I believe Hayles attempts to answer in Chapter Seven of her novel How We Became Post Human. Continue reading