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The Symbolic World

163 - Dr. Paula Boddington - Biotech Creation Myths

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8824 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Support this channel: thesymbolicworld.com/support/ patreon: www.patreon.com/pageauvideos subscribestar: www.subscribestar.com/jonathan-pageau paypal: www.paypal.me/JonathanPageau Dr. Paula Boddington is a moral philosopher and expert on the ethical questions surrounding the advancement of biomedical technologies as well as artificial intelligence. This is our second conversation where we continue to discuss AI and the narratives surrounding it, as well as dissecting other modern narratives about technology, evolution, progress, environmentalism, medical hybridization, contraceptives, intelligence and the individual. Our first conversation: How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Humanity - With Dr. Paula Boddington: https://youtu.be/jti77KQKYuc Original Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h76iIz8t1gE My links: website: www.thesymbolicworld.com facebook: www.facebook.com/TheSymbolicWorld/ twitter: twitter.com/pageaujonathan The podcast was edited by Justin Ward.

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0:00.0

So hello, everybody. I am with Dr. Paula Boddington. Dr. Paula is a moral philosopher. You have seen her on my

0:06.5

channel before. We talked about AI. And we had such a great conversation. We thought it would

0:11.0

definitely be worth to continue thinking about AI. But she's also an expert on the ethical

0:17.8

quandaries relating to medicine and in terms of biological issues, let's say.

0:23.4

And so right now with all these things going on, I posted about this monkey man.

0:28.1

And then there's also the whole thing about AI, which is swirling and COVID, of course.

0:32.1

So we thought that we would talk about this in relation to storytelling and the kind of stories we tell about the things

0:38.9

we do in the world as humans.

0:53.3

This is Jonathan Peugeot.

0:55.0

Welcome to the symbolic world.

0:57.0

So Dr. Paula, thank you for coming again.

1:08.0

I'm really happy.

1:09.0

I know a lot of people really enjoyed our first conversation. And so you had something you wanted to start with. So let's go with that.

1:16.1

And then we'll see where it leads us. Yeah. Hi. It's really good to talk to you again. So yesterday,

1:21.8

yesterday, also I should maybe start off by saying happy St. George's Day. It's simply today today.

1:27.0

Okay, great. Yes. Wonderful.

1:29.7

Yeah. So yesterday on Twitter, I saw that somebody who had put up that meme from a conference of the Vatican using the kind of creation of Adam meme.

1:39.1

I wish it was a meme. It was an advertisement. Like, if it had only been a meme, it would have been better.

1:44.8

An advert for two hands touching, like, and even one had even, one side had even got the kind

1:49.5

of like, you know how Adam's really limp-risted? Yep. And in, and in surgical gloves, touching.

1:57.2

And, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, I just, it just shows you just how clueless people are about, and you reacted quite strongly to that.

2:06.3

Well, it just shows you just how clueless people are about what things refer to.

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