Thinkers Across Time · Episode 7 · 10 min · 14 April 2026
Impossible Dialogues: When Descartes Meets Turing Over a Mechanical Duck
Philosophical debates that never happened—history’s greatest minds imagine the future, one automaton at a time.
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Philosophical debates that never happened—history’s greatest minds imagine the future, one automaton at a time.
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About Thinkers Across Time
Imagine historical luminaries from different eras engaging in weekly, imagined debates on topics they never got to discuss, all narrated by a philosopher who believes the best conversations are the ones that never actually happened.