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Existential Comics recently offered a philosophical variation on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a program which I used to blog about regularly because of the show\u2019s exploration of religion and my interest in artificial intelligence. Having duly issued the necessary language warning, I nonetheless recommend it and link to it. Of related interest, see the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":36897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,74,97],"tags":[443,810,1625,1874,2039,3166,3255,4871,9084,11321,12375],"class_list":["post-35007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-philosophy","category-terminator","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cartoon","tag-chronicles","tag-comic","tag-ethics","tag-existential-comics","tag-humor","tag-philosophy","tag-simone-de-beauvoir","tag-terminator"],"yoast_head":"\n
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