Artificial Consciousness: Edelman vs Buddha
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Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix | h+ MagazineWhen surveying the goals of transhumanists, I found it striking how heavily many of them favor conventional engineering. This seems inefficient and inelegant, since such engineering reproduces slowly, clumsily and imperfectly, what biological systems have fine-tuned for eons, from nanobots ...
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All In The Mind: You are NOT a Self! Thomas Metzinger...An interview with Thomas Metzinger one of the worlds leading Neuro-philosopher's on ABC Radio National's All In The Mind blog for the show of the same name. Metzinger has recently released a book named "The Ego Tunnel" in which he proposes that there is in fact no Self and discusses the ethical ...
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Robot Evolution Triggers Question: "What is Life?" -A Galaxy ClassicRobot Evolution Triggers Question: "What is Life?" -A Galaxy Classic There is ongoing debate about what constitutes life. Synthetic bacteria for example, are created by man and yet also alive. Some go so far as to say that robot “emotions” may already have occurred—that current robots have ...
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Me Versus Copy of Me: Transhumanism's Dilemma by Ron Blechner | Second TenseTranshumanism: " Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities." It is not a philosophy, as it may sound like some reaction to Humanism. Its beliefs range from ...
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Can Bots Feel Joy? | h+ MagazineWill machines ever really feel, in the same sense that humans do? This is a separate question from whether machines can be intelligent, or whether they can act like they feel. The question is whether machines — if suitably constructed and programmed — can have awareness, passion, subjective ...
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A "Complex" Theory of Consciousness: Scientific AmericanDo you think that your newest ac quisition, a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner that traces out its unpredictable paths on your living room floor, is conscious? What about that bee that hovers above your marmalade-covered breakfast toast? Or the newborn who finally fell asleep after being suckled? ...
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What Makes You Uniquely "You"? - interview with Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman | DISCOVER MagazineNobel laureate Gerald Edelman says your brain is one-of-a-kind in the history of the universe. Some of the most profound questions in science are also the least tangible. What does it mean to be sentient? What is the self? When issues become imponderable, many researchers demur, but neuroscientist ...
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What Makes You Uniquely "You"? | Learning | DISCOVER MagazineSome of the most profound questions in science are also the least tangible. What does it mean to be sentient? What is the self? When issues become imponderable, many researchers demur, but neuroscientist Gerald Edelman dives right in. A physician and cell biologist who won a 1972 Nobel Prize ...
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Automates Intelligents :Dossier : la conscience vue par les neurosciences, par Jean-Paul Baquiast et Christophe Jacquemin28 octobre 2008 par Jean-Paul Baquiast et Christophe Jacquemin [Dossier] La conscience vue par les neurosciences Avant-propos Depuis la création de cette revue, en 2000, nous avons présenté et largement commenté certains ouvrages scientifiques consacrés au fonctionnement du cerveau et ...
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