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Is it a comedy gig? A hip hop gig? A neuroscience lecture? Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide To Consciousness is all three. You may well walk out laughing, humming and wondering if you are a human being or a robot.
“Peer-reviewed rapper” Baba Brinkman explores the scientific study of consciousness in his latest hip-hop comedy, fresh from the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe
Leave any Vanilla Ice expectations in the cloakroom and imagine if Eminem had read philosopher Daniel Dennett. Brinkman wittily weaves together accessible ideas and inventive rhymes. Discussing artificial intelligence he sings "From Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas, people thought if you wanted design, you need a mind first."
The locquacious Canadian employs case studies in an attempt to clarify what consciousness is. In one adorably cute sequence he raps about his new baby Dylan, while an image of his smiling offspring flickers onscreen. Has Dylan got self-awareness yet? And if so did he have it as a tadpole-like embryo, dad asks.
Part of Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide Encore Series
“Peer-reviewed rapper” Baba Brinkman explores the scientific study of consciousness in his latest hip-hop comedy, fresh from the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe
Leave any Vanilla Ice expectations in the cloakroom and imagine if Eminem had read philosopher Daniel Dennett. Brinkman wittily weaves together accessible ideas and inventive rhymes. Discussing artificial intelligence he sings "From Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas, people thought if you wanted design, you need a mind first."
The locquacious Canadian employs case studies in an attempt to clarify what consciousness is. In one adorably cute sequence he raps about his new baby Dylan, while an image of his smiling offspring flickers onscreen. Has Dylan got self-awareness yet? And if so did he have it as a tadpole-like embryo, dad asks.
Part of Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide Encore Series
Age Guidance: 10
Show Notes: No Intermission
Audience Advisory:
Part of Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide Encore Series
Performance Schedule:
Thu Dec 27, 2018 | 8:30 PM
Wed Jan 2, 2019 | 8:30 PM
Thu Jan 3, 2019 | 9:00 PM
Wed Jan 16, 2019 | 9:00 PM
Thu Jan 17, 2019 | 9:00 PM
Wed Jan 23, 2019 | 9:00 PM
Thu Jan 24, 2019 | 9:00 PM
Wed Jan 30, 2019 | 8:30 PM
Thu Jan 31, 2019 | 8:30 PM
Wed Feb 6, 2019 | 9:00 PM
Wed Feb 13, 2019 | 9:00 PM
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