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What’s the fuss anyway?

Posted on July 29, 2008December 4, 2023 by Arto

Do we need to be morally accountable for our actions for the society and the judicial system to function?

Posted In Brain, Speculations

Repent! The singularity is near (or maybe not)

Posted on July 1, 2008December 4, 2023 by Arto

Comments on the June 2008 issue of IEEE Spectrum about the SIngularity.

Posted In Brain, Speculations

Wikipedia on free will

Posted on June 26, 2008December 4, 2023 by Arto

Deconstruction of the statement: “The question of free will is whether, and in what sense, rational agents exercise control over their actions and decisions.”

Posted In Brain, Speculations

More on free will

Posted on May 30, 2008November 19, 2023 by Arto

Removing randomness from quantum mechanics.

Posted In Brain, Speculations

Free will revisited

Posted on May 24, 2008November 19, 2023 by Arto

There is no free will. It cannot even be defined.

Posted In Brain, Speculations

Pleasure and pain

Posted on May 8, 2008November 19, 2023 by Arto

Maybe the original sin really was to gain consciousness (“your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil”, Genesis 3:5) which is why humans are doomed to “in pain… bring forth children”.

Posted In Brain, Speculations

Strange loops

Posted on May 4, 2008November 19, 2023 by Arto

Some extrapolations of Douglas Hofstadter’s book I am a strange loop.

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Beyond gender neutral bathrooms.

Most epistemologists have found it overwhelmingly plausible that what is false cannot be known.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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