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Emotions in Science and Science FictionPresented by the Centre for Time and the
Russellian Society
Two short talks on emotions and their place in science and sciencefiction.
5pm, Friday March 28Refectory, Main Quadrangle, The University of SydneyFree
Life as an emotionless killing-machineDavid Banks - Actor and author
An emotionless killing machine threatens every human on the planet.David Banks,
Cyberleader from BBC TV's long-running science fictionseries Doctor Who, traces
the origins and implications in the cyberneticconcept of artificially-augmented
life, and explores the role of sciencefiction and the far-reaching ideas of
scientist and writer Dr KitPedler, co-creator of the Cybermen. When does an
augmented person ceaseto be human? Where is the mind-body problem? What is it
like to be arobot? Are emotions optional and should we care? Banks examines
thesequestions and comes to an unexpected, unsettling conclusion.
How I learnt to stop worrying (amongst other emotions)Professor Paul Griffiths
- University Professorial Research Fellow, TheUniversity of Sydney
The Edwardian psychologist William McDougall said that an organismwithout
emotion "would lie inert and motionless like a wonderfulclockwork whose
main-spring had been removed or a steam-engine whosefires had been drawn." This
seems an intuitively sensible thing to say,especially if, like many in the
history of psychology, we count pleasureand pain as emotions. But if McDougal
is right, what is supposed to bemaking the Cybermen do all that killing? This
and other puzzles have ledme to argue that 'emotion' is unlikely to be a
category for which amature scientific psychology will have much use. In that
sense, perhapsnone of us really have emotions.
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