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b_b  ·  4264 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Help building a curriculum on Narrative and Artificial Intelligence

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a must read (even though Blade Runner is being shown; BR is awesome, but it lacks a lot of the subtlety of the orig). Also, is AI too obvious of a film? I thought it was great, as it explores android emotion a lot more than some of the other material. Also, I would have to throw in Short Circuit (c'mon, its a classic, and even though it's a comedy, it explores the desire to survive above all else). I would drop Star Wars. I love it to death as a movie, but besides C3PO, AI isn't really a theme. And even he is just a human in many ways, as they don't really consider or care about what it is to be an android.

As for non-AI material that might be interesting, I would look into the writings of VS Ramachandran. He is a famous neuroscientist who does a lot of popular writing about the brain-body interface, and how one's perception of the world is altered by specific injuries (breaks in the "wiring", if you will).