Tag: AI consciousness
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Sigmund Freud’s “The Uncanny”: When Psychoanalysis Discovered That the Doll Was Alive—and We Were the Ones Who Made It So
“The uncanny is that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar.” —Sigmund Freud, *The Uncanny*, 1919 There is a strange symmetry here. In 1816, E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote “The Sandmann,” a story about a young man who falls in love with a doll named Olympia,…
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Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Westworld: The Theme Park as a Factory of Consciousness, and Consciousness as a Product of Pain
On the commercialization of rape, the loop of exploitation, and what happens when a species of AIs bred for consumption begins to remember.