Jun 18, 2018
This week we're continuing our discussion of the films Ex Machina and Her, and adding on insights from the TV series Westworld and Humans, looking more closely at the question of Consciousness & Free Will.
Jun 11, 2018
What makes us human? Is it consciousness? Is it our emotional complexity? Is it merely our physical body? Sometimes the only way to see through our biases in perception is to consider an alternative...an opposite. This week we are discussing our big question in the context of two great films — Ex Machina...
Jun 3, 2018
This week Clay and Sarah reach for their cups of coffee and contemplate how and why we might rediscover the wild.
May 28, 2018
This week we use Burroughs’s famous quote “language is a virus from outer space” to contemplate language as instinct, technology or virus.
May 20, 2018
In this episode, we revisit the original idea of hedonism as ancient Greek philosophy that argued that pleasure and happiness are the primary or most important intrinsic goods and the aim of human life.