Rudy's Podcasts
Rudy's Podcasts
Rudy's Podcasts contains readings from Rudy Rucker's SF tales, his talks about the philosophical implications of computers, and interviews with him about writing, art, science, and literature.
A full single-page listing of the items (going back to 2005) can be found on the Rudy's Podcasts web page, http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/rudys-podcasts/
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Created on: 27 Sep 2005 Language: English |
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Philosophy and Computers 8: Hive Minds and Society, Dec 2, 2005 (51.80MB; download) -- Lecture on Chapter 5 of "The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul". Flocking behaviors, how conversations can exemplify different computation classes, the hive mind of society, the nature of language, the ubiquity of social power laws. (If you want to follow the computer demos, download the "Boppers" and "CAPOW" programs from the www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox site, and run these on a Windows machine.) Selected by: Rudy Rucker [ stations ], Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:48:20 UTC
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Philosophy and Computers 7: Consciousness, Nov 17, 2005. (48.27MB; download) -- Lecture on the second half of Chapter Four of "The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul." Arguing that a computer program can be conscious, and that this will happen within a hundred years. Selected by: Rudy Rucker [ stations ], Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:42:07 UTC
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KFJC 6: "Hello Infinity." Nov 15, 2005. (7.85MB; download) -- Final reading at KFJC. This short-short science fiction story, from my nonfiction book, The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul (http://www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox), illustrates some questions about whether every thinkable process is physically realizable, and whether every computation is thinkable. Selected by: Rudy Rucker [ stations ], Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:42:35 UTC
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KFJC 5: "The Kind Rain." Nov 8, 2005. (6.61MB; download) -- At radio KFJC, www.kfjc.org or 89.7 FM, with Ann Arbor, 7:20 AM, Tuesday, reading the fifth thought experiment story from my nonfiction Lifebox book. Can a rainstorm be conscious? Selected by: Rudy Rucker [ stations ], Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:39:17 UTC
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Philosophy and Computers 6: Neural Nets and the Phenomenolgy of Mind, Nov 4, 2005. (60.96MB; download) -- The 6th lecture in my SJSU philosophy course. Covers sections 4.1 to 4.3 of The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul. Selected by: Rudy Rucker [ stations ], Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:08:43 UTC
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Lifebox Talk #2: MIT Media Lab, October 31, 2005. (60.89MB; download) -- "Gnarly Computation" talk at MIT on my new book The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. See slides at http://www.rudyrucker.com/pdf/mit_oct_31_2005.pdf. See blog entry on this event at http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/index.php?m=11&y=05&d=03 Selected by: Rudy Rucker [ stations ], Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:21:08 UTC
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KFJC 4: "Terry's Talker," with Intro. Oct 25, 2005. (3.93MB; download) -- At radio KFJC, www.kfjc.org or 89.7 FM, with Ann Arbor, 7:20 AM, Tuesday, reading the fourth thought experiment story from my nonfiction Lifebox book. Intro included. Selected by: Rudy Rucker [ stations ], Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:45:07 UTC
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KFJC 3: "Aint Paint," with Intro. Oct 18, 2005. (1.12MB; download) -- At radio KFJC with Ann Arbor, reading the third "thought experiment" short-short SF story included in The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, see http://www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox. Introduction is included. Selected by: Rudy Rucker [ stations ], Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:43:01 UTC
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Philsophy and Computers 5: Review Chaps 1-3. Oct 13, 2005 (65.44MB; download) -- Review session summarizing Chapters 1 - 3 of The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. A good introduction to the material. Visuals of the questions I wrote on the blackboards are in http://www.rudyrucker.com/pdf/lifeboxmidtermreview.pdf
Selected by: Rudy Rucker [ stations ], Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:45:06 UTC
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Interview 3: Small World Interviews Rudy Rucker, novelist & popular science writer. October 14, 2005. (35.54MB; download) -- Interview with novelist and popular science writer Rudy Rucker. We discuss his recently released book, Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy; the universe as different types of computation; his six teachings that came from the book; his book The Hacker and the Ants; going native in California; teaching computer science at San Jose State University; working as a computer programmwer at AutoDesk; determinism versus free will; Stephen Wolfram and cellular automata; his belief in God; the influence of his great, great grandfather, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; the dialectic: thesis, synthesis and antithesis; how gnarly computation taught him how to be writer; what he discovered while writing his latest book; Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem; A New Kind of Science; is artificial intelligence possible; Ray Kurzweil; Moore's law; how philosophy has changed in the 20th century; Daniel Dennett; science fiction as philosophy; Accelerando by Charles Stross; the singularity, Vernor Vinge; Accelerating Change conference; how is style of writing developed; counterculture values; his novel Software; Olaf Stapleton; Zap Comix; artist Pieter Brueghel; his podcasts; his blog; Boing Boing.
Featured song is "No Better Place To Live" by Criste Gifton Saizi. Selected by: Rudy Rucker [ stations ], Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:17:56 UTC
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