May 18, 2006. Talk on “The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul” at LucasFilm in the Presidio in San Francisco. See slides . See photos on the May 19, 2006 entry of Rudy’s Blog.
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April 18, 2006. Reading “Chu and the Nants.” This story is in the June, 2006, edition of ISAAC ASIMOV’S SF magazine. It also serves as part of the first chapter of POSTSINGULAR. The reading was at The New College on Valencia St. in San Francisco, under the aegis of the “SF in SF” series of monthly readings organized by Terry Bisson and Adam Cornford.
Dec 9, 2005. My final lecture in my Philosophy and Computers class at SJSU in Fall, 2005. Based on Chapter 6 of my tome, “The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul.” Includes discussion of my ambivalence about how to end the book, panpsychism, ontologies, unsolvability, computational equivalence, unpredictability, undecidability, and my six principles on how to be happy. (56.46MB. 60 min.)