Be warned this episode contains awful impressions of Ray Winstone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Elvis Presley.  

In this session, we once again tackle the question of artificial intelligence, this time with the "Two Joes". As Joe's dissertation looks at AI and consciousness we explore some of the philosophical and ethical ideas that spring up in the field including - Asimov's laws, determinism, self-awareness, the trolley problem, the Frame Problem, dystopian fiction, the Turing Test and free will & determinism.  

Do ideas like transhumanism and automated economies irreparably alter what it means to be human? Well unfortunately in this follow-up podcast, we have very few answers. After we explore a thought experiment concerning what a fully automated world might look like (again) the conversation more inane and sweary turns. In our state of drunken phronesis, we offer conspiracy theories about Elvis Presley's death and Connor invents a new word for "skeleton".  

Here is an essay from Joe about transhumanism and "becoming like God": https://twobeersuntilphronesis.weebly...