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"What would it be like to consciously feel you were nothing but a robotic phenotype", asks Will Self, "pre-programmed to replicate its own integrated genotypic code then become...obsolete?"
Taking the contemporary TV series "Westworld" as his starting point, Will explores consciousness, humanity and artificial intelligence.
Producer: Adele Armstrong.
By BBC Radio 44.6
7373 ratings
"What would it be like to consciously feel you were nothing but a robotic phenotype", asks Will Self, "pre-programmed to replicate its own integrated genotypic code then become...obsolete?"
Taking the contemporary TV series "Westworld" as his starting point, Will explores consciousness, humanity and artificial intelligence.
Producer: Adele Armstrong.

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