Gawd, I know that episode so well Influenced my thinking quite deeply (blew my socks off)
Stumbled upon it on youtube some years ago, was great to see it again, How time flies, he looks just like a kid in that docu... Can't seem to find it now
well this one is from left field as the yanks tend to say so to keep this thread rolling post your answer...
all i ask is have you heard of the author and some of his other very fine books?
Ok. It was Kuldesak by Richard Cowper.
This author was unknown to me.
This one could be a bit harder: "When your brain controls your body remotely, you have to deal with lags"
you sir are quite correct. Richrd Cowper is actually a pseudonym , he wrote a quite a few good books in my opinion. well worth the read.
something jogs my memory but it is buried deep..... this could take a while...
rxke if you know then just answer...ll then its your turn to come up with a question...
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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rxke if you know then just answer...ll then its your turn to come up with a question...
I can't!!! I'm busy at work, I don't have time to type away on BBSes!
oh wait....
(I'm on my break, really, I am. And the post before, well...... That was the computer was exporting gigs and gigs of fff files, so I had to wait until it was free to do err work and stuff )
(For the whole experience, watch from the beginning)
Correct: the movie/documentary is Victim of the brain.
...but the name of the story is?
For fame & glory, do you also know which recent movie reboot is partially inspired from this thought experiment? (Tip: many character in this movie are named after philosophers of mind)
Almost correct. It was the 2014 remake of Robocop. The scientist that rebuilds Murphy is called Dennett Norton, and there's a scene where he explains that the biologic brain of Murphy works in parallel with an electronic copy of it: when Murphy/Robocop goes in "combat mode", the electronic copy gets in control of the body, while Murphy's mind keeps believing that he is in control. In Where am I, there's an almost identical situation. https://tichy.github.io/robocop-2014.html (It's in italian) http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2014/0 ... of-robocop (this is from Alva Noe, another philopher, which follows the "enactivist" approach, instead of the "functionalist" approach of Dennett)
You turn
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OK: what classic novel connects the first two Alien films, and how? (i.e. Alien and Aliens, I'm not counting a pile of prequel yad like Prometheus - Ridely Scott clearly can't be trusted with a big budget ...)
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