{"podcast":{"title":"Sadler's Lectures","slug":"sadler-s-lectures-233636","podcast_index_feed_id":233636,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:452424567/sounds.rss","website_url":"https://www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000454164567-ok8t43-original.jpg","author":"Lectures on classic and contemporary philosophical texts and thinkers by Gregory B. Sadler","episode_count":500,"summary":"I'm that YouTube Philosophy Guy! Find more than 3…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T04:21:47.402430+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sadler-s-lectures-233636"},"episode":{"title":"Stanislaw Lem, Summa Technologiae - Defrosting And Duplicating - Sadler's Lectures","slug":"stanislaw-lem-summa-technologiae-defrosting-and-duplicating-sadler-s-lectures","published_at":"2026-06-10T17:34:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sadler-s-lectures-233636/stanislaw-lem-summa-technologiae-defrosting-and-duplicating-sadler-s-lectures","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sadler-s-lectures-233636","url":"https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/stanislaw-lem-summa-2","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2323122311-gregorybsadler-stanislaw-lem-summa-2.mp3","summary":"This video focuses on chapter 6 of Stanislaw Lem's Summa Technologiae, specifically the section “Personality and Information”, which discusses thought experiments that bear on turning a person into information and reconstituting that person somewhere else or at a different point in time. Specifically it examines on a somewhat different kind of thought-experiment, involving freezing a person, taking all of their atoms out of them while keeping records of their configurations, and then reconstituting and thawing them. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 4500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Stanislaw Lem's Summa Technologiae - https://amzn.to/4v0FxNz","meta_description":"This video focuses on chapter 6 of Stanislaw Lem's Summa Technologiae, specifically the section “Personality and Information”, which discusses thought exp…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":603,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sadler-s-lectures-233636/episodes/stanislaw-lem-summa-technologiae-defrosting-and-duplicating-sadler-s-lectures/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sadler-s-lectures-233636/stanislaw-lem-summa-technologiae-defrosting-and-duplicating-sadler-s-lectures.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}