This lecture is an in person event, scheduled to take place on November 3rd at 5pm. RSVP requested.
From the event: "In this lecture, Johnson interprets the work of Ibn Rushd (Averroës), the twelfth-century Islamic scholar of Andalusia who achieved renown as the “father” of secularism, in order to elucidate Ibn Rushd’s theory of the intellect as a power of the soul. Johnson leverages Rushd’s distinction between sensing and knowing in order to examine contemporary, sensory-driven AI technology (particularly brain-computer-interface architectures) as a uniquely generative problem of interest for humanists and technical experts alike. Of central importance is the sensation of pain, as it constitutes a phenomenon of embodiment, a category of human experience, and a political problem."