Barry Lamb
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first heard Jan 2022
last heard Apr 2023
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They're not really minded beings.
Christina Van Dyke, Columbia University and co-host of our Monster series.
in story form.
Recording from Vassar College, here's Barry Lamb.
Today on HiFi Nation, a short cultural history of the zombie and what is involved in becoming a zombie.
When George Romero introduced the zombie in 1968, he created a monster that stripped all that was attractive and human about the vampire and left us with something completely inhuman, something that only inspires fear and disgust, and something that you're only trying to kill in the most brutal fashion possible.
In philosophy, the zombie is used to think about what makes a person conscious, and therefore worthy of moral consideration.
It's one of the hardest problems to figure out, but it's one we have to figure out, because we're building things that look a lot like zombies now, but could look like people in the near future.
It's AI.
David Chalmers is one of the leading philosophers of mind, and he runs the Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness at NYU.
Among other things, he's a leading thinker about zombies.
It's one of the things he's most famous for.
John Hector Browning?
Haitian zombies, I've discovered, come from the theological beliefs not of voodoo, but voodoo, the West African ancestor of Haitian voodoo.
which is that there are two types of spirits, two sides of the soul, one of which we would call subjective consciousness.
You might call that the self.
And that's what makes people unique.
That's right.
So they had that.
They believed that there was that.
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