893 – Topics

00:03 Mark Twain: a farmer and his robot, inspired by the Matrix, living in a pod, Domestico the robot, Dr Marta Wink, deep research, psychological challenge, people escaping to fantasy in games and even novels, body beautiful

17:00 Moral issues: rewarding experience, pain without suffering, morality and ethics, physical reality a necessity for morality, running away from emotions, all faced with reality that we are mortal, purpose of life, becoming obsolete, doing what one loves, the villain’s speech

31:20 Funny bone: metaverse trilogy – All the Humans are Sleeping – Dying – Waking up, discovery writer, cover art, crucifixion in charcoal and pastel, Andrew Brannan’s drill on bone surgery, the taser incident

43:10 The issue is consent: being human includes the body, potential of technology, reptilian brains, the Golden Rule, the Silver Rule, coercion and consent, human emotions as reservoirs of information

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