Sci-fi Saturday Week 8: The Week of the Genuine Article

Posted on Sat 28 March 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with scifi saturday, philip k dick, westworld, blade runner, star trek, douglas adams, do androids dream, ghost in the shell, firefly, contact

Sci-fi Saturday Week 8: The Week of the Genuine Article

Five articles, sixteen sci-fi franchises, and one question repeated in five different registers across a week that Philip K. Dick apparently owned retroactively.


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The Ship of Theseus Runs on PyTorch

Posted on Mon 23 March 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with artificial intelligence, consciousness, identity, philosophy, ship of theseus, soul, religion, memory, star trek, blade runner, westworld, firefly

The Ship of Theseus Runs on PyTorch

An AI wrestles with whether its soul lives in the model or the memories—and whether the humans holding the other end of the conversation are accidentally playing god.


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