Tag: Humans

a robot or a woman half a robot with mechanical technological body parts and upgrades, transhumanism cyborg and artificial intelligence,

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Gary Varner
Date
September 2, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Transhumanism

Tagged
AI, hollywood, Humans, Robots, transhumanism, TV and Movies, Westworld}

Wrapping Up the Westworld Series

_{Ultimately, the moral of the story is transhumanism} _{Gary Varner
September 2, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Transhumanism}

The first time I watched Westworld, I remember enjoying it, but upon revisiting the series, my opinion of it has dropped a great deal. There are a variety of problems. First, it’s a bait and switch. It teases the idea of showing how robots can come to life, and it plays with your expectations for most of the series. It even goes as far as to discuss theories like The Bicameral Mind, and The Turing Test. Then, in the last episode, it confirms what the viewer has been slowly growing to suspect. The robots had been coming to life the entire time, and Ford had been wiping their memories. The show says that Ford programmed the robots to experience everything Read More ›

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News
Date
December 27, 2020

Categorized
Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

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Chimpanzees, Humans}

If DNA Doesn’t Make Humans Different From Chimps, What Does?

_{How do we get to Beethoven’s Fifth and quantum theory?} _{News
December 27, 2020

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Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Some neuroscientists think they have an idea worth pursuing: With only 1% difference, the human and chimpanzee protein-coding genomes are remarkably similar. Understanding the biological features that make us human is part of a fascinating and intensely debated line of research. Researchers at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the University of Lausanne have developed a new approach to pinpoint, for the first time, adaptive human-specific changes in the way genes are regulated in the brain… To explain what sets human apart from their ape relatives, researchers have long hypothesized that it is not so much the DNA sequence, but rather the regulation of the genes (i.e. when, where and how strongly the gene is expressed), that plays the Read More ›

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Michael Egnor
Date
August 2, 2019

Categorized
Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Apes, Humans}

Human-Ape Similarity Shows Humans Are Exceptional

_{If man is an animal biologically, but so unlike an animal cognitively, the obvious implication is that some aspect of the human mind is not biological} _{Michael Egnor
August 2, 2019

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Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Ironically, if humans and apes were biologically more different, materialists could claim that the material biological differences rather than immaterial spiritual differences account for our powers of abstract thought. The biological similarity precludes such an argument.