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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | | | As a computational functionalist, I think the mind is a system that exists in this universe and operates according to the laws of physics. Which means that, in principle, there shouldn't be any reason why the information and dispositions that make up a mind can't be recorded and copied into another substrate someday, such as... | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | A few weeks ago, I attended the Seven Pines Symposium on Fundamental Problems in Physics outside Minneapolis, where I had the honor of participating in a panel discussion withSir Roger Penrose. The way it worked was, Penrosespoke for a half hour about his ideas about consciousness (Gödel, quantum gravity, microtubules, uncomputability, you know the drill),... | |
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selfawaresystems.com
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| | | | | On March 19, 2008 Steve Omohundro gave a talk at the meeting of the World Transhumanist Association (now Humanity+) on "AI and the Future of Human Morality". Great thanks to Drew Reynolds who filmed the talk, edited the video, and produced a transcript with the original slides. The video is available here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1286459692350772178&hl=en The edited... | |
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theimaginativeconservative.org
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| | | Should modern man devote himself like Sartre to undermining bourgeois society and scoffing at manners and morals? Should he play the part of Socrates, questioning everything and affirming nothing? To answer yes to these questions is to grant nothing to human life beyond the mockery of it. T.S. Eliot's solution was to embrace culture and tradition, and to take the path of poetry... (essay by Sir Roger Scruton) | ||
