13th century theologian Albertus Magnus inspires centuries of speculations about imbuing life into artefacts.
Justification
Artificial intelligence (AI) prompts many contemporary debates about the possibility of sentience, consciousness and other philosophically contentious topics in the context of human-made artefacts. This story reminds us that these debates are by no means novel.
Title
Albertus Magnus' Metal Statue
Date or Period 📅
1373 (Kang & Halliburton, 2020)
Intro
13th century theologian Albertus Magnus inspires centuries of speculations about imbuing life into artefacts.
Justification
Artificial intelligence (AI) prompts many contemporary debates about the possibility of sentience, consciousness and other philosophically contentious topics in the context of human-made artefacts. This story reminds us that these debates are by no means novel.
This story was developed for the RSA's Augmented Society Network.
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