Isotropic is …
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Tag Archives: consciousness
25 May 2009
Does it matter whether you are a simulation?
What is the probability that you are a simulation, and if so, how can you tell? I ran across this idea a while back on one of the science blogs I follow, but had just glanced over and forgotten about it until someone asked about it on LinkedIn yesterday. Nick Bostrom of Oxford University asked [...]
07 Mar 2009
Ghosts of Memory
In the small hours of the morning, as I wander randomly over the ‘Net, something reminds me of Ghost in the Shell. One of the pervasive issues in GITS is what it means to be human in a society where entire bodies can be replaced with prosthetics, consciousness transferred from one construct to another, and [...]
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philosophy
Tags: AIartificial intelligenceconsciousnesscyborgparadoxself-awareness
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