The Science Fiction Universe of "Meru" by SB Divya
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Daniel and Kelly talk to the author of "Meru" about a future which blurs the line between humans and machines.
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| 0:07.0 | Is it love, religion, drugs, money? Where do you find it? |
| 0:11.0 | Craig Ferguson, in search of joy, the celebrations, the dances, science, poetry, laughter, and music of joy. |
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| 0:20.0 | Here it now. |
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| 0:26.0 | I'm here to help. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey Kelly, do you still remember your parents phone number from when you were growing up? |
| 0:44.0 | I do. I doubt I'll ever forget it. My fingers can still like go through the muscle memory of pushing it on a touch-tone phone. |
| 0:50.0 | And now do you know like all of your family phone numbers? |
| 0:54.0 | No, absolutely not. They're on my phone. There's no need to remember them. |
| 0:58.0 | They're on the brain in my pocket. |
| 1:00.0 | So do you think of your phone as like an extension of your brain? |
| 1:04.0 | I am not sure. I could be a fully functioning human being without it anymore, so maybe. |
| 1:10.0 | Do you ever wonder though if like our phones feel the same way? |
| 1:14.0 | Do they feel like they're part of our brains or that we are part of them? |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, I hope not. |
| 1:20.0 | Because if my phone has feelings, I'm sure it's grumpy because I drop it all the time and I have felt it with photos of... |
| 1:27.0 | disgusting bugs and dumb beetles rolling poop. So I hope my phone does not have feelings. |
| 1:33.0 | We've all dumped our phone in places we'd never want to mention. |
| 1:37.0 | Hi, I'm Daniel. I'm a particle physicist and a professor at UC Irvine. |
| 1:57.0 | And I think my phone is smarter than I am. |
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