Tag: personification

Male mannequin covered with slices of a mirror on a black background

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Nathan Jacobson
Date
March 7, 2023

Categorized
Virtual Reality

Tagged
gaming (and AI characters), personification, programming, seductive optics}

Moving Pixels

_{Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence, Part II.} _{Nathan Jacobson
March 7, 2023

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Virtual Reality}

Whatever emotions we bring to the movie or to the game ourselves, our digital allies and enemies breathe no breaths, make no sacrifices, feel no lonely deaths. Living, dying, or respawning, they are as dead as a dead pixel. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 13, 2019

Categorized
Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
___longform, Elephants, Human exceptionalism, Natural Intelligence, personification}

Elephants Who Fly — or Become “Persons” — Are Magic

_{Okay, it's impossible. But then why do thinkers who disbelieve the one believe the other?} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2019

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Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

For decades, researchers were transfixed with the idea of humanizing great apes by raising them among humans and teaching them language. Emerging from the ruins and recriminations of the collapse, philosophy prof Don Ross has a new idea: Let’s start with elephants instead.