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Philip Cahill on Superintelligence, Telepathy, and the Evolution of Thought
The 33rd episode of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory asks the question: What happens when intelligence stops looking human?Mookie sits down with speculative fiction author Philip Cahill—longtime contributor to the annual anthology circuit and author of Noystria—to tear into one of the biggest questions in science fiction: not whether AI will get smarter, but how alien that intelligence might actually become.Cahill’s work goes beyond the “robots take over" trope, and explores something stranger and more compelling: post-human minds, telepathic communication, and the collapse of language…
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