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Chat bots, James Dean ... can the digital dead rest in peace?

  • Written by Patrick Stokes, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University
James Dean in East of Eden in 1955. Sixty four years after his death, a reanimated 'James Dean' will reportedly be starring in a new film.idmb

“To be dead,” wrote the 20th century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, “is to be a prey for the living.” Even Sartre, though, would have struggled to imagine casting James Dean in...

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