John Hunter Professor, Comparative Humanities, Bucknell University Director of the Comparative & Digital Humanities Program, Bucknell University John Hunter is Professor and Director of the Comparative & Digital Humanities Program at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. His teaching focuses on the cultural effects of digital networks, computing, robotics, and artificial intelligence, with an especial interest in how these processes are represented in cinema and television. He began his career as a literature scholar edited the Blackwell anthology Renaissance Literature: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose(2009) and Flirtation and Courtship in 18th Century Literature (with Ghislaine McDayter) (2022). His current scholarly work investigates the effects of cellphones on cinematic and televisual narrative and builds on the Film Search Engine, a searchable database of feature films that allows both verbal and visual prompts. Participant In: Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness September 21st, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Panpsychism is the lightly subscribed philosophical position that consciousness is a property of all matter, large and small, simple and complex, alive and inert. According to panpsychism mind is everywhere. Eliminativism is the view that consciousness, at least what most of us consider our mind’s eye access to reality (phenomenal consciousness), exists quite literally nowhere, not even… read more »
Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness September 21st, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Panpsychism is the lightly subscribed philosophical position that consciousness is a property of all matter, large and small, simple and complex, alive and inert. According to panpsychism mind is everywhere. Eliminativism is the view that consciousness, at least what most of us consider our mind’s eye access to reality (phenomenal consciousness), exists quite literally nowhere, not even… read more »