The challenge, moving on, is that better scholarship means listening to those who challenge conventional ideas instead of serially editing them.
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Even in the world of theatre, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary drama, tragedy plays a profound role in defining Western civilization, while evoking sadness and joy resulting in catharsis in audiences.
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At the Brussels Signal, tech analyst Norman Lewis has been discussing a form of indoctrination that is becoming increasingly popular in the European Union, and doubtless elsewhere: prebunking — “a preventative measure that aims to prepare audiences to recognize and resist information risks.” (UNHCR) Prebunking is beloved of bureaucrats and you will hear a great deal about what a good thing it is from many sources — sources that should, under the circumstances, give pause for thought: ● “What Is Prebunking? It’s better to inoculate against disinformation than to debunk later.” (Psychology Today, 2021) ● “False information is everywhere. ‘Pre-bunking’ tries to head it off early” (NPR, 2022) ● “What is Pre-Bunking: The Power of Framing Before the Facts” (Simply Read More ›
Even when the pranksters who create the often elaborate crop circles are identified, “croppies” insist that only ET could have done it.
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Computers are not conscious simply because they are programmed to make decisions; plants are likely in the same position.
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Andrew McDiarmid has become a prophetic voice warning against developments like this from the tech world.
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Hint for the handshake problem in Microsofty 92: Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) provided a formula for this.
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Grieftech poses genuine problems when avatars seem to keep the deceased unchanged in a changing world — or change just when we want them to.
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Han tells Leia directly that he is in this for the money, not the revolution, which is not something a typical sleazy character would say.
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New information suggests that basic assumptions underlying many disciplines may be inadequate or mistaken. How they respond will predict their future.
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A computer system can be generally intelligent (AGI) only if it can generate genuinely new functional information, not merely transfer it.
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A just published puff-piece interview by The Water Diplomat with Dutch human and nature rights lawyer Jan van de Venis illustrates the niceness and the threat.
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The trend against eyewitness reliability seems part of the ideology that undermines finding objective truth.
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When the young people inherit the world, they can start getting tough with misuse and abuse but first they should take the time to learn how it works.
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We now await an army of predominantly middle-aged, bearded male philosophy graduates, out of work for the past 20 years, raising their wrists, thus pointing their fingers to the sky as they make the journey for an interview in Silicon Valley.
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Sometimes you wonder which version of yourself is the “real” you, and whether all this shifting makes you somehow inauthentic or fake.
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A hint for Microsofty 91: Where might Jimmy the Mooch have found some spare energy?
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Koch might wish to consider William James’s neglected theory of consciousness: the brain does not create the mind; it focuses it.
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Can God ease or irradicate the suffering, both physical and mental, of some human beings on Earth if they pray for it or have ‘Road to Damascus’ moment?
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While an interpretation might survive many difficulties, it cannot survive the failure to provide the one thing it promises — and even after seventy years, “many worlds” has yet to produce even one.
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