“If only I could talk with them again.” It’s a common refrain for anyone who is grieving someone they love. Now, we can access technology like deadbots, or AI replicas of a lost loved one, to simulate those conversations, but at what cost? Maybe we’ve always had the capacity — within our own voices — to deepen conversations with the people we’re missing, even after they’re gone.&nbsp;

GUESTS: University of Cambridge assistant professors <a href="https://www.lcfi.ac.uk/people/katarzyna-nowaczyk-basinska">Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska</a> and <a href="https://www.lcfi.ac.uk/people/tomasz-hollanek">Tomasz Hollanek</a>, writer and psycholinguist <a href="https://juliesedivy.com/">Julie Sedivy</a>.
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