The scene is its own entity. What else might be its own entity? Can a machine that passes the Turing test know what it’s like to be a bat? We bring in emotions from irrelevant contexts, and we keep hearing them long after they’re gone.

Episode art by Alvin Alvaro. Audio editing by Tyler Hislop at Pixelbox Media.

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