Rationally Speaking #71 - On Science Fiction and Philosophy
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The Potential of Sci-Fi for Exploring Philosophical Issues
I'm really excited about exploring philosophical themes in sci-fi but I have a lot of trepidation as well about drawing philosophical conclusions from any kind of fiction. There's just so much potential even inadvertently to vastly skew the conclusions that people draw about what is likely to happen in the real world or about what they care about okay? Terminator which portrays one like theoretically possible and maybe to some extent plausible outcome of advanced artificial intelligence you get Skynet and you get you know Armageddon, he says.
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