Thinkers Across Time · Episode 7 · 10 min · English audio · 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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