The case of the use of the abacus by Japanese school children and adults … tool’s use becomes incorporated into a culture-specific technology
As far as AI can see
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Category: Philosophy/Ethics
Carlo Ierna writes about …
In this blog you will find also some fictional dialogues made between different virtual characters. We thought of doing this to stimulate the reader to identify with the questions or curiosity of the different characters. In fact, each character has their own personality and will interact with others in a different way. If you want to view all the virutal characters and you want more information about please visit the virtual characters page.
Zap goes the Neuron
If I do not greatly deceive myself, I have succeeded in realizing… the hundred years’ dream of physicists and physiologists, to wit, the identity of the nervous principle with electricity
Today one Neuron, tomorrow the Brain!
The Navy said the perceptron would be the first non-living mechanism capable of receiving, recognizing and identifying its surroundings without any human training or control
Life Imitating Science
Writers can tell children about rocket ships and time machines but … How children will confront these issues as adults?
Where is my flying car?
Computing devices in our pocket, Live video chats, Voice commands … The future is already here … it’s just not very evenly distributed
Natural Born Cyborgs
The resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.
Conditioning the Moral Compass
The resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.
Human-Computer Symbiosis
The resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.
Brainwaves
We could, just as is the case with the electrocardiogram for pathologies of the heart, find an objective research method for pathological changes in the activities of the central nervous system, which would be of the greatest significance for diagnostics
Hips of Steel
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better…stronger…faster!
The Ethical Pursuit
New discoveries, new technologies, new social arrangements in the external world erupt into our lives in the form of increased turnover rates.
They set the stage for that potentially devastating social illness—future shock.
We are Bee-men
Rather than speak of a group mind, it may thus be more appropriate to consider a beehive as a special kind of singular mind, albeit one that is spatially distributed over many (insect) bodies.
Consciousless
Our common-sense conception of psychological phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so fundamentally defective that both the principles and the ontology of that theory will eventually be displaced, rather than smoothly reduced, by completed neuroscience.