In Episode 9 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gene Rodenberry put to screen one of the most iconic explorations of artificial intelligence and its implications as the crew grapples with the personage of Data, an android crewmember; a synthetic… person? This and other fictional considerations of consciousness, agency, and will are increasingly relevant in our real world.

What is the measure of a person? What is the measure of a mind? What are these new thinking machines imagined by science fiction writers that seem increasingly real today? Do they imagine? Do they dream of electric sheep? This Sunday, let us explore the implications of artificial intelligence, virtual minds, and the odd futures they portend.

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Topics: Imagination