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Monday, April 6, 2015
on Adam Roberts's Bête
This is a book about the difference between being a butcher and being a murderer, if there is a difference
This is a book about the fungibility of identity
This is a book about the persistence of identity
This is a book about the relationship between identity and body
This is a book about the unforeseen consequences of technology
This is a book about some of the ways in which slick talk about the “posthuman” is vacuous
This is a book about the uses and abuses of the concept of species
This is a book about the Smiths' song “Meat is Murder”
This is a book about all the stories that have talking animals
This is a book about Wittgenstein's claim that “If a lion could talk, we would not understand him”
This is a book about what happens to carnivores when they become reflective about being carnivores
This is a book about Oedipus and the riddle of the Sphinx
This is a book about what Animal Farm would be like if it weren't a parable
This is a book about what we think is below us and what we think might be above us in the Great Chain of Being
This is a book about what the Turing test can’t do
This is a book about the problem of other minds
Labels:
Adam Roberts,
artificial intelligence,
Fiction
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Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, generally, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University and the author, most recently, of How to Think and The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. His homepage is here.

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How to Read Well in an Age of Distraction
Watch video of Alan Jacobs discussing his book in a Washington, D.C. lecture in June 2011.

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