Widely acclaimed as a future classic on its release, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is both visually stunning and philosophically profound and provocative film. Extending the story of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, it is a cinematically stunning achievement in its own right. Containing specially commissioned chapters by a roster of international contributors, this fascinating collection explores the philosophical questions that abound in Blade Runner 2049, including:
- What does it mean to be "real"?
- What distinguishes the authentically "human" person from the mere simulacrum?
- What are the essential conditions for personhood?
- How does the fact of being born inform one’s experience of being-in-the-world?
- How might shared memories feature in the constitution of personal identities?
- What happens when created beings transcend the limits intended in their design?
- Can a hologrammatic artificial intelligence have its own subjective experiences?
- To what degree are all conscious experiences akin to controlled hallucinations?
- What essential feature defines intimate relationships of romance, sex, and love?
- How might developing artificial economics impact our behaviour as prosumers?
- What are the implications of techno-human enhancement in an era of surveillance capitalism?
- How might distinct cinematic worlds nevertheless be narratively "interlinked"?
- What, if anything, can we really know about fictional truths?
Including a foreword by Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, film studies, philosophy of mind, psychology, gender studies, and conceptual issues in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
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1 We're All Just Looking For Something Real |
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2 The Alphabet Of Us: Miracles, Messianism, And The Baseline Test In Blade Runner 2049 |
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3 The "Miracle"Of Replicant Reproduction |
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4 Being-From-Birth: Natality And Narrative |
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5 The Best Memories: Identity, Narrative, And Objects |
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6 Breaking The Code: Strong Agency And Becoming A Person |
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8 Androids Dream Of Virtual Sheep |
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9 Her Eyes Were Green: Intimate Relationships In Blade Runner 2049 |
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12 What Am I To You? The Deck-A-Rep Debate Andthe Question Of Fictional Truth |
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Timothy Shanahan is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and the author of Philosophy and Blade Runner (2014).
Paul Smart is a researcher at the New University of Lisbon, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK, and a freelance cognitive science consultant, specializing in machine learning and virtual reality technologies.
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