A reading club on Philip K. Dick's science fiction classic, the novel that inspired the film Blade Runner. In a ruined, emptied San Francisco, bounty hunter Rick Deckard hunts androids that pass as human, and the boundary between human and machine grows less certain. Is empathy what makes us human? Can an artificial being feel fear, longing and grief?
The group looks at how artificial intelligence is changing our work, relationships and ideas about the future, and what it does to us as people. The sessions are not about technology as such but about literature that explores the line between the human and the artificially made, around presence, consciousness, empathy and freedom.
Open to anyone who enjoys reading and wants to share reactions and think aloud with others. Led by Simon Ben Karottki, a Danish teacher, across five evenings, with Lise Rasmussen, a priest, behind the course.
