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Philip Roth On The Novel Verses The Screen
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Tagged books, computers, internet, literature, novels, philip roth, poetry, screens
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Will Computers Ever Really Be Conscious and Intelligent?
Philosopher John Searle thinks not. _____ And literary critic Stanley Fish, writing in the New York Times, appears to agree with Searle, offering the following as a key distinction between himself and a computer: [I]ts procedures do not track my practice. I … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, apologetics, atheism, atheist, computers, consciousness, determinism, free will, God, intelligence, john searle, stanley fish, William Wordsworth
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Stuxnet-Like Virus Duqu is Coming from India?
This is curious. According to the Jerusalem Post, the Stuxnet-like computer virus, Duqu, is coming from India, and it’s one bad mother fucker: Systems infected with Duqu are connected to a command computer that is in an unknown location in India, … Continue reading
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Tagged arms race, computer viruses, computers, cyber terrorism, cyber weapons, cyber-pearl harbor, duqu, Iran, Israel, stuxnet, viruses
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Doctors, Jeopardy, and Computers
When I was recently watching online NOVA’s Smartest Machine on Earth—an exceptionally fascinating documentary on the IBM computer that defeated the two most accomplished (human) Jeopardy players in the game show’s history—it occurred to me that it won’t be long before … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, diagnosis, doctors, economics, IBM, medicine, ray kurzweil, stocks, technology, the singularity, utopia
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A Sign of the Times
It’s not just car factories that are disappearing from Michigan. Property owners in Troy appear indifferent to keeping their library open. Ironically, Troy’s official motto is “The City of Tomorrow, Today.” I guess libraries are relics of the past. Note the 1970s architectural style of … Continue reading
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Tagged books, computers, e-books, gutenburg, illiteracy, libraries, literacy, straining out the gnat, swallowing camels, taxes, troy
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Stanley Fish on What Distinguishes Us from Computers
At the New York Times this week, Stanley Fish offers the following as a key distinction between himself and a computer: [I]ts procedures do not track my practice. I am not self-consciously generating a pattern of statistical frequencies. I am … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, calculation, computers, consciousness, life, mind, robots, stanley fish, the soul, turing test
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Is the Universe a Quantum Computer?
A new book by Vlatko Vedral, Decoding Reality (2010), makes the case for this, and according to the reviewer of the book at New Scientist Vedral also gives a bit of intellectual support to some ideas that circulate among Hindu yogis: Vedral holds out … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Buddhism, computers, Hinduism, philosophy, physics, pseudoscience, quantum physics, the universe, theism, vedic philosophy
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Technological Extensions ‘R’ Us: Martin Heidegger and Marshall McLuhan Were Right!
A new study actually testing a direct speculation of Martin Heidegger’s (that we see through our technologies, and so are our technologies) seems to have confirmed it at the neurological level. I think that Marshall McLuhan, who long touted a similar … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, cyborgs, marshall mcluhan, martin heidegger, medieval christianity, mice, pencils, robots, technology, the extensions of man, tools
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This is What the Tablet Future Looks Like?
Maybe. But contra the video, probably not this year.
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Tagged computers, Moses, sports, tablets, technology, the ten commandments
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