Ghost in the Machine is a radio show about minds and
bodies, machines and memory.
It's presented by John
Sutton & the Ghost team: Tim Bayne, Jean Barrett and Rick
Benitez, Doris McIlwain, and Caroline West
The programme was awarded the 2002 Media Prize of the Australasian
Association of Philosophy.
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Ghost in the Machine is on Eastside Radio 89.7FM in Sydney,
every Thursday from 5.30-6pm.
We're always looking for ideas for the programme. If you can suggest a
topic for discussion, or someone to
interview, please do get in touch! Email the Ghost
team here with
suggestions about people and topics for the future.
Thursday June 3
Mix: PET scans of
multiple
personality; memory deletion
Thursday May 27
Developmental psychologist
Cathy
McMahon on the psychology of fertility
Thursday May 20
Tim interviews Melissa
Green
about Gestalt perception in schizophrenia
Thursday May 13
Kim Atkins from Uni of
Tasmania:
'can we be friends with machines?'
Thursday May 6
Tim and John on rationality
Thursday April 29
Caroline
Thursday April 22
Caroline
Thursday April 15
A rare
interview with Marina Warner
about ectoplasm
Thursday April 8
Mitch
Thursday April 1
Mitch
Thursday March 25
Mitch and Bruce on modularity: is the mind like a Swiss
army knife?
Thursday March 18
Mitch Parsell interviews
Catharine Abell: how do pictures represent
Thursday March 11
Interview with Natasha
Mitchell, who presents All in the Mind on
ABC Radio National
Thursday March 4
Mark Peters, who
works in both fine arts and computer science, talks about surprise in
robots,
and introduces
the Interactive Digital Media Matrix
Thursday February 26
Kerry Sherman talks to Doris about personality and temperament
Thursday February 19
Doris checks back in with Celia Allison to find out how Cecily has gone down in Oz
Thursday February 12
Doris is just back from Alice, and plays her
interview with Narayan Kozeluh
about his new
gallery there, and changing styles in Aboriginal art
Thursday February 5
Caroline
Thursday January 29
Caroline and Tim on 'wrongful birth'
Thursday January 22
Doris talks to Celia Allison, a New Zealand artist
whose wonderful creation
Cecily is
soon to make her Australian
debut (at the
Tap Gallery,
Feb 17th!)
Thursday January 15
Tim interviews philosopher Mitch
Parsell about neural nets and the structure of the mind
Thursday January 8 2004
Caroline and Tim on
Thursday December 18 2003 Rick
interviews Paul Redding about The Logic of Affect
Thursday December 11
Rick interviews Jacinta Frawley, president of the
Carl Jung Society, about fairy tales, grief,
and expressive therapy
Thursday December 4
Interview with Jim Franklin and Jean Curthoys about
Franklin's new book Corrupting
the
Youth:
a history of
philosophy in Australia
Thursday November 28 The
Cross-Cultural Semantics of Memory: John Sutton reports on a workshop
at UNSW -
is 'remembering' a universal human concept?
Thursday November 21 Did
the All Blacks forget how to play?
Tim Bayne and John Sutton on the puzzles of skill
memory and habit memory
Thursday November 14
Interview with Spanish philosopher Mauricio Suarez about
representation in art and science
Thursday September 18 Jean
speaks with young Samuel Clemens (Zac Benitez) and old Mark Twain (Rick
Benitez)
about Twain's essay 'Man and Machine'
Thursday September 11
Rick on the idea of non-existence
Thursday September 4
John Hadley on the treatment of human and non-human
animals
Thursday August 28
Rick talks about Dormancy
conditions - hibernation, torpor, and sleep
Thursday August 21
Rick and Jean interview Bruin Christensen and
Cameron Tonkinwise about
sustainability and technology
Thursday August 14
Sleepwalking and automatism
Thursday August 7
Mohan
Matthen on vision and colour
Thursdays July 24 and 31
Lucy
Suchman on being an anthropologist at Xerox Corporation, and
affective
computing.
... a few Thursdays to be filled in here! .... check back soon!
Thursday May 22 Rick with
some very strange puppets.
Thursday May 15 Ghostly
Anniversary! Celebrating two years of Ghost in the Machine
on Eastside Radio.
Ryle, Koestler, 1952 Cadillacs, and the origins of
the phrase 'ghost in the machine'.
Thursday May 8 Rick interviews
Patrick Yong, Tai Chi teacher and champion, about the nature
of chi.
Thursday May
1
Salah Sukreiah talks with Rick about some more remarkable new robots.
Thursday April 24 Mix: body
modification, Wittgenstein, and Alphonso Lingis
Thursday April
17 Andrew
Haas on Aristotle, Heidegger, and the critique of power
Thursday April
10 Mix:
review of Ghostly websites; is 'reductionism' a dirty word?
Thursday April
3
Gerry Nolan on the new series of public philosophy discussion evenings
in Sydney, the
2nd Tuesday Philosophy
Forum
Thursday March 27
Caroline West interviews Jeanne Peijnenburg, a philosopher from the
University
of
Groningen in The Netherlands, about regret and changing the past
Thursday March 20
Rachel Kent, Senior Curator at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, on
the
new
show, Liquid Sea, which explores human interaction with the
natural world
Thursday March 13
Caroline West talks with Elisabeth Pacherie about the nature of action
Thursday March
6
Tim Bayne and Elisabeth Pacherie on delusions
Thursday February 27 Jean and Rick on pleasure
Thursday February 20 "Drama-X" with Rebecca
Marscham
Thursday February 13 Carole Cusack, from the Dept of
Studies in Religion at Sydney Uni, on music,
spirit, and Hildegard of Bingen
Thursday February 6 Rick and Jean on war and
protest ... 'death don't have no mercy'
Thursday January 30 Mix: Arnold Geulincx born
Jan 31, 1624; Kasparov vs Deep Junior.
Thursday January 23 Doris McIlwain interviews
Judy Hyde, Director of the Clinic at Macquarie Uni, about
what makes a psychotherapist
Thursday January 16 Psychologist Mike Burton
from Glasgow University on face recognition
Thursday January 9 2003 Rick and Jean talk with Huw
Price about time
Two weeks Xmas break - the Ghosts will be back on Thursday January 9
Thursday December 19 2002 Hypnosis! with Amanda Barnier
from UNSW
Thursday December 12 We talk to Mark Bedau, a leading Artificial Life
theorist
Thursday December 5 Media theorist Andrew
Murphie on technology and thought.
Thursday November 28 Doris McIlwain talks with
psychologist Mike Corballis about gesture and the evolution of speech
Thursday November 21 Rick and Jean talk to Sydney
playwright Art Lantern about his show 'The Pulse of Apollo'
Thursday November 14 Jason Grossman on computer
languages
Thursday November 7 Helen Rose-Schauersberger on her
gothic cabaret, Dangerous Curves - great music and more ...
Thursday October 31 Rick Benitez talks to Amanda Owen
and Donna Jackson about their show
BODY
- Celebration of the Machine, opening in The Studio at the Opera
House.
Thursday October 24 Interview with Les Louttit, NSW
President of Sleep Disorders Australia, about sleep apnea.
Thursday October 17 Eastside's annual Radiothon
subscription drive. Doris McIlwain tells us why Plato and Nietzsche
urge
us to support community radio, and what Freud will say if we don't.
Thursday October 10 Patrick Filmer-Sankey,
deputy director of the Australian Museum, on the museum's 175th
anniversary. Thursday October 3 Caroline West
talks with Tim Bayne about death.
Thursday September 26 Dave Macarthur on the many
meanings of the word 'natural'.
Thursday September 19 Caroline West talking with
David Braddon-Mitchell: could we be virtual creatures in a virtual
world?
Thursday September 12 Rick and Jean talk with "The
Conformist" (Raf Rouco)
Thursday September 5 Interview with Kenny Davis Jr of
Decoder
Ring about action at a distance.
Davis will play tracks from an as-yet unreleased Decoder Ring CD.
Thursday August 29 Rick and Jean on scorn and
reconciliation
Thursday August 22 Interview with Peter Slezak
of UNSW about atheism, cognitive science, & Galileo.
Thursday August 15 Adam Hatzimanolis of
Sidetrack Theatre on Fernando Pessoa and 'The Book Keeper
of Rua dos Douradores'
Thursday August 8 Philosopher Tim Bayne on
consciousness.
Thursday August 1 Mix: archaeologists find
chocolate and chess pieces; appeal for programme ideas.
Thursday July 25 We talk to Gerard
O'Brien of Adelaide University about minds and science.
Thursday July 18 Doris McIlwain interviews
Professor Jill Straker about trauma and memory.
Thursday July 11 Studio discussions with Carol
Collier, Helen Hattab, and Dennis Des Chene, participants in a
conference The Origins of
Modernity: European Thought 1543-1789. We're talking about
the idea
that the body is a machine: how
did this strange idea get a grip in Western culture, and why not in the
East?
We also celebrate Sir Kenelm
Digby's 399th anniversary.
Thursday July 4 Interview with Professor Robert
Olby about the topics of his free public lecture
Why
Celebrate the Discovery of the Double Helix in 2002-3?
Thursday June 27 Mix: the influence of cinema
on the near-death experience "I saw my life flash before my eyes";
Sidetrack Theatre.
Thursday June 20 Interview with Max Bennett
about Genes,
Neurons, & Mental Illness
Thursday June 6 Doris McIlwain and Danielle
Macbeth preview a conference on Natural
Representations.
Thursday May 30 Doris McIlwain on deception and
self-deception.
Thursday 23 May Doris McIlwain, Joan
Kirkby, & Tom Burvill talk about fantasy and 'phantasy'.
Thursday 16 May Interview with Peter Anstey:
why study the history of philosophy, and why read old books?
Thursday 9 May Mix: RoboRats controlled at a
distance; John Cleese on philosophy.
Thursday 2 May Part 2 of our interview with Jack
Copeland.
Thursday 25 April Anzac Day holiday - no
programme
Thursday 18 April Part 1 of an interview with Jack
Copeland, co-director of the Turing
Archive, about the
codebreaking Colossus
machine and the early
history of computing.
Thursday 11 April Mix: new Eureka
Prize for Lateral Thinking; sleeping and death; and robots in
our oceans.
Thursday 4 April Doris McIlwain discusses anxiety with Ron Rapee.
Thursday 28 March Doris McIlwain interviews
social psychologist Fiona Papps about fashion and beauty.
Thursdays 14 and 21 March Ghost hosted by
Doris McIlwain. Bodysnatchers: neuropsychologists
Nora
Breen and Max
Coltheart
on the delusion
that your loved one's been replaced by an impostor.
Thursday 7 March Interview with philosopher Max
Deutscher about remembering and consciousness.
Thursday 28 February Bioethicist and philosopher of
science Rachel
Ankeny, on cloning.
Thursday 21 February Interview with historian of
science John
Schuster about the Scientific Revolution.
Thursday 14 February Philosopher Michaelis
Michael on the late David Lewis, and the paradoxes of time travel.
Thursday 7 February Interview with political
theorist, historian, and playwright Conal
Condren.
Thursday 31 January Media theorist and
e-commerce producer Belinda Barnet on
the metaphysics and history of the Internet.
Thursday 24 January Mix: neuroscience and the arts;
new ABC programme All
in the
Mind
January 2002 Summer editions of Ghost
co-presented with Will Sutton. Topics:
17 January - Sponges, cows' stomachs, and other metaphors of memory
10 January - Charles Fort and the Fortean Times
3 January - Bonaventure and the Flashing Blade - cricketing
cyberpunk; and
the Sonnabend-Delani
Halls at the Museum of
Jurassic
Technology
Thursday 13 December 2001 Philosopher Caroline West on
personal identity.
Thursday 6 December Interview with philosopher
Robyn Ferrell about feminism and the philosophy of new
reproductive technologies.
Thursday 29 November Mathematician/
philosopher/ historian James Franklin on his
new book The Science of Conjecture:
probability before Pascal, on the history of risk, dice, and
reasoning from evidence.
Thursday 22 November Interview with medical historian
Alison Bashford and criminologist Carolyn Strange about
detention, contagion, and isolation in Australian history.
Thursday 15 November Political philosopher Tony Lynch
on evil and silence.
Thursday 8 November Interview with Elizabeth Wilson
about Alan Turing, Enigma, and codebreakers.
Thursday 1 November Discussion with Edward
Spence and Rick Benitez about the Philosophy Nights
series
of dramas which has run since 1997 at the Steki Taverna in Newtown,
Sydney.
Thursday 25 October Eastside Radiothon (subscription
drive). $66 for a year of discounts and good community radio.
Thursday 18 October Film-maker and theorist
John Buckmaster on cinema and the mind.
Thursday 11 October Station Manager Ian Laird
on Eastside's Radiothon; the personality of computer voices.
Thursday 4 October Mix: Thomas Reid's lucid
dreams; and false memories of Bugs Bunny.
Thursday 27 September Interview with philosopher and
A.I. scientist Samir
Chopra about knowledge representation.
Thursday 20 September Mix: Pietro Pomponazzi
1462-1525; www.laughlab.co.uk; and octopus brains.
Thursday 13 September Historian of science Nicholas
Rasmussen on scientific instruments and the body.
Thursday 6 September Movies and the Mind:
A.I., Bladerunner, Until the End of the World.
Thursday 30 August Interview with webmaster Paul Broekhuisje
about chess,
computers, and the mind.
Thursday 23 August Dreaming.
Thursday 16 August Media theorist Chris
Chesher on why the digital computer is dead.
Thursday 9 August. Interview with historian
Mary Spongberg on bodies, smells, and syphilis.
Thursday 2 August. Medical historian Mark
Cortiula on blood and blood donors.
Thursday 26 July. A.I. guru Rodney Brooks on
robotics, intelligent dolls, and human stupidity.
Tuesday 19 June. Interview with philosopher
Sandy Lynch and student Tim Fletcher about philosophy in NSW schools.
Tuesday 12 June. Historian Jonathan Simon on
dead bodies and wax models.
Tuesday 5 June. Interview with witch Deborah
Gray about her book How To Be A Real Witch.
Tuesday 29 May. Psychologist Kate
Stevens on music perception and choreographic cognition.
Tuesday 15 May. Interview with novelist Lawrence
Norfolk about his book In
the Shape of a Boar.
Tuesday 8 May. Interview with curator Mike Bogle
about 'Masters of Lunacy', an exhibition at Hyde Park Barracks.
Tuesday 1 May 2001. Ghost
in the Machine debut. Bookdealer Chris Burgess on New
Age commerce & the
Mind/Body/ Spirit Festival
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