Abeba Berhane, PhD candidate in cognitive science at University College Dublin in the School of Computer Science joins the WBI show to discuss what it means to be human when we as deeply social and interdependent beings are atomized in our houses to shelter in due to COVID-19.

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel and Stanley Muñoz
Music: Drew Lewis

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Links for Episode:
Descartes was wrong: 'a person is a person through other persons'
Fair Warning Robot Rights? Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead

Recommendations:

Abeba Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin, Ubuntu: I in You and You and Me by Michael Battle, Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World by Cal (Crystal)Biruk
Ilan The Uncomfortable - a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects
Stanley Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk
Khadijah “Nothing But Death”: Inside the Nursing Home Where NYC's Most Vulnerable Struggle to Survive COVID-19 by Molly Schwartz

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Who We Be Now? (with Abeba Berhane)