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Abeba Birhane

Abeba Birhane is currently a PhD candidate in cognitive science at University College Dublin in the School of Computer Science. She studies the dynamic and reciprocal relationships between emerging technologies, personhood and society.
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The Fruit Salad Maker: an interdisciplinary tale

There seems to be a lot of excitement about interdisciplinarity but are “the disciplines” ready to see beyond the primacy of their fields?

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Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’

According to Ubuntu philosophy, people are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, and instead must acquire it through interactions and experiences over time.

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