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(2012) Philosophy and the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
"I think you ought to know i"m feeling very depressed"
marvin and artificial intelligence
Jerry Goodenough
pp. 129-152
I still remember the first time I met Marvin. It was 15 March 1978 and the first broadcast of episode two of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series. From the moment I heard Stephen Moore's electronically modulated voice as Marvin, I was hooked, and he remains my favourite character in the show. Partly this has something to do with the surprise I felt, not just that a robot should have a personality of some sort but that it should be such a comically repellent one, marked by self-obsession, self-pity and hypochondria. Marvin plays no great role in the various narratives of the series (radio, book, film, etc.) but he is a great comic character in his own right.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-39265-6_6
Full citation:
Goodenough, J. (2012)., "I think you ought to know i"m feeling very depressed": marvin and artificial intelligence, in N. Joll (ed.), Philosophy and the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 129-152.
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