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(Symposium) Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: revisting the bright-line argument
Time:
Wednesday, 25/June/2025:
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:Blauwe Zaal
Presentations
Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: Revisiting the bright-line argument
Chair(s): John Sullins (Sonoma State University, United States of America)
Presentations of the Symposium
The Crux of the Bright-line Argument as an Explanatory Lens for Understanding Why the Problem of Authenticity Concerning Artificial Companions Persists
Aaron Butler University of Lucerne, Faculty of Theology, Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics LGSE, Institute of Social Ethics ISE
Thinking Otherwise
David Gunkel Northern Illinois University
Intimate technologies and liberation
John Sullins Sonoma State University
Hell is Other Robots: Participatory Sense-Making and GenAI