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Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man Goes Machine
Cue the cyborgs:
“Robo sapiens”
O brave new world! In the science section of The New York Times this week is a report on Atlas, a recently designed robot built for use by the Pentagon: “People love the wizards in Harry Potter or ‘Lord of the Rings,’ but … Continue reading
Robots are Coming to Get You
If you missed the 60 Minutes segment on robots Sunday night, you really missed something. Here’s a taste.
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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Biotech and Robotics: The Two Great Technology Waves That Are Coming
A pretty powerful quote from the BigThink website: [Managing Director of Excel Venture Management, Juan] Enriquez stresses that “life code” (the famous A, G, T, C of DNA) will have the same importance for the next generation as digital code (1’s … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse not, biology, cells, history, juan enriquez, robotics, robots, science, stem cells, technology, the future
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Atheism on Trial: Robots v. Fairies?
Atheists tend to be comfortable with one, and only one, irreducible thing in the universe: matter. Matter just is. It has no explanation outside itself, but it’s here; it is its nature to be here. Did it just jump into existence … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Daniel Dennett, determinism, fairies, free will, God, jerry coyne, robots, strict materialism
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Monism, free will, and atheist cognitive dissonance
Imagine an atheist who believes—against religious dualism—that there is one world, not two, and that it runs on determinate physics (or on perfect quantum probabilistic randomness, which amounts to the same thing). Now also imagine that he (or she) believes in free … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, cognitive dissonance, dualism, free will, God, philosophy, psychology, Richard Dawkins, robots
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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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Can You Be a Scientifically Educated and Buddha Aware Person, and Still Believe in the Self and in Free Will?
I know this goes against the prevailing winds of both science and Buddhism, but what would it be like to hold a naive view of the self and free will? In other words, what if you were to think that, … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Buddhism, determinism, free will, free will v determinism, humanism, philosophy, Richard Dawkins, robots
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Why Most People Intuitively Reject Atheism
They believe that they have real minds and real free will—and that these are not illusions—and they can’t be reasonably reduced to physics and chemistry. In other words, there are three real things in the universe—minds, free will, and matter—and not, ultimately, just one thing … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 