In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with Jonathan Birch about his new book “The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.”

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with Jonathan Birch about his new book “The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.”

Deep in the back of your mind, you’ve always had the feeling that there’s something strange about reality. There is. Join Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick as they examine neurological quandaries, cosmic mysteries, evolutionary marvels and our transhuman future.

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The Edge of Sentience, with Jonathan Birch

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Are you ready for a 1960 Mexican sci-fi comedy involving multiple alien monsters, space vampires, interplanetary politics and several música norteña songs? Also a robot falls in love with a jukebox. Rob and Joe discuss it all in this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema. (originally published 9/3/2021)

Are you ready for a 1960 Mexican sci-fi comedy involving multiple alien monsters, space vampires, interplanetary politics and several música norteña songs? Also a robot falls in love with a jukebox. Rob and Joe discuss it all in this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema. (originally published 9/3/2021)

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Ship of Monsters

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In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe dive into the world of shadows. How do human conceptions of shadows factor into our literature, art, history and monster making? What does it mean to cast a monstrous shadow, or to cast no shadow at all? Find out… (originally published 10/26/2023)

In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe dive into the world of shadows. How do human conceptions of shadows factor into our literature, art, history and monster making? What does it mean to cast a monstrous shadow, or to cast no shadow at all? Find out… (originally published 10/26/2023)

From the Vault: Where the Shadows Lie, Part 2

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In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss Hayao Miyazaki's 2001 fantasy classic "Spirited Away."

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss Hayao Miyazaki's 2001 fantasy classic "Spirited Away."

Weirdhouse Cinema: Spirited Away

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The Edge of Sentience, with Jonathan Birch

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