Will Computers Eventually Make the Human Mind Obsolete?
“Breath on the Wind” writes on my post: “A Chilling Lesson From Two of History’s Most Important Philosophers,” A computer can progress from one bit of logical data to another in a far more rapid progression than is possible for human beings. Will we one day have computers tell us that they have a right to “personhood” because they think? Humans have the potential for multiple levels of thinking and we seem to have the potential for intuition: the ability to jump to a correct conclusion bypassing the logical steps.
I also often wonder about the limits of computers vis-a-vis human thinking. (more…)
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It’s the birthday of the father of modern philosophy, Rene’ Descartes, who began his professional life as a prominent mathematician and scientist in 17th Century France. His much better-known explorations into philosophy came as an accident, when he realized that doubt was a requirement to the scientific method. Famously, he called everything he knew into question, but then began to fear that perhaps there was nothing we could know with any certainly about ourselves and the world around us. 
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trepidation. Proposals to use technology to address climate change come in various forms, the two most popular of which are increasing the albedo (reflectiveness) of the Earth, and enabling the oceans to absorb more CO2.
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