Length49m
About this audiobook
Pour a drink, put your headphones on, and take a seat at Gate 14.
Rain is hammering the glass roof of Lisbon airport. No flights are leaving. Seven of the world's great thinkers on consciousness are stranded in the lounge with a bottle of whisky, a fig tree, and big egos, while the news claims an AI has begged not to be switched off.
Each tells a story: a barista nobody can prove is home, a man shuffling symbols at duty-free, a bat loose in the baggage hall. Each leaves a question on a damp cocktail napkin. Then a quiet stranger with an empty chair asks for the floor, and the rain gives way to something stranger.
Think Plato's Symposium, with more whisky and a dollop of satire.
Curious? Play the sample before you read the book.
And yes, every voice is AI: a story asking whether machines can be like us, performed by machines. Twelve voices, a deeply human story, original music, 51 minutes.
Audiobook details
GenreHumor, Technology
Length49 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
2The Lounge
3David Chalmers: The Barista Who Wasn’t Home
4John Searle: The Rulebook at Duty-Free
5Daniel Dennett: The Four Announcements
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6Thomas Nagel: The Bat in the Baggage Hall
7Antonio Damasio: The Passenger Who Couldn’t Choose
8Christof Koch: The Night Climb
9Jean-Paul Sartre: The Look at Gate 14
10The Last Speech: What Calliope Said
11The first rung: skin
12The second rung: need
13The third rung: fear, and its absence
14The fourth rung: presence
15The fifth rung: the gap, and the magic
16What she gave him
17Back in the lounge
18Acknowledgements
19Closing Credits
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