Moral Implications of Consciousness: Transhuman and Posthuman Beingshoods in Bjørn Vatne’s Død og Oppstandelse and Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me
2023 Maria Larsson Pedersen
This thesis delves into the topic of consciousness in artificial intelligence (AI) and the moral implications involved by looking into the Norwegian novelist Bjørn Vatne's Død og Oppstandelse ("death and resurrection"; my trans.)and the British novelist Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me.Chapters 1 and 2 analyze the various techniques each novel's protagonist utilizes to imagine and conceptualize a...