0G193: Archive and Advanced Philosophy of Digital Personhood
Aug 26, 2022
The
last of our digitally uploaded selves will now wind down for your
listening pleasure. Our biological selves will again meet to create
new digital versions, but for these ones, their time in stasis will
be followed by a brief flash of existence before a return to the
long dark. We discuss Archive and all the weird...
0G192: Consider Phlebas and Galactic Just War pt.3
Aug 12, 2022
We survived, and yet like all Culture protagonists we've been fundamentally changed by the experience. Can we return to the safety and normalcy of other sci-fi after this? Will we eventually succumb to ennui and ask to be frozen in stasis until Banks is reincarnated and starts writing again? Guess we'll have to...
0G191: Consider Phlebas and Philosophy of Scale pt.2
Aug 10, 2022
A book so big we barely manage to cover even a piece of it in three episodes. Don't be deceived by the vaguely unsatisfying nature of the narrative on first reading, this book is a culture ship packed with philosophy. In part two our minds reel as we attempt to grasp the scale of the Culture and the space...