Body or Soul?: Introduction to Come As You Are

About this episode

Amy and Tommy explore the essence of human-ness through the lens of Emily Nagoski's work.

What IS our human-ness? Is it the SOUL? Or is it the BODY? What is it that reminds us that we aren't supercomputers and that AI-generated bots aren't human? Amy & Tommy dig into that question as they open up Emily Nagoski's Come As You Are for in-depth discussion. Amy confuses the beloved San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen with an artist at the paper, Warren Goodrich. No matter. We just gotta keep on talking. Mentioned in this episode: Maybe Happy Ending Homo Deus by Yu...

People in this episode

Hosts: Amy Hoffmann, Tommy Borden

Topics covered

• human-ness
• soul
• body
• AI
• identity
• relationships

Keywords

• human-ness
• soul
• body
• AI
• identity
• Emily Nagoski
• Come As You Are

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Come As You Are, Maybe Happy Ending, Homo Deus

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