The Ghost in the Machine Has Retained Counsel By Robert Nogacki In 1961, Stanisław Lem—a doctor’s son from Lwów who had become the most philosophically exacting science-fiction writer alive—published a novel about a planet covered entirely by a thinking ocean. The ocean, which constituted the whole of the alien entity called Solaris, had been studied … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence: Consciousness, Legal Personhood, and Free Will