Episode 83: The Dying Bird of Authentic Humanness ft. Default Friend

March 23rd, 2022  |  54 mins 46 secs

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DF and Emmet take a look at Phillip K Dick's 1972 lecture "The Android and the Human." They dive into his idea that we can learn about our inner lives by looking at the world of machines, the integration of man and machine, empathy, rebellion, totalitarianism, and weirdly hanging out with teenage girls getting late term abortions.