Consciousness
Scientists are starting to worry about ‘conscious’ machines, as in the movie ‘Transcendence’
If “Terminator,” “The Matrix” and “2001: A Space Odyssey” taught us anything, it is that super-intelligent machines are bad news for humans. Now comes the new film, Transcendence, where a human brain is uploaded into a computer, with disturbing results. Could it actually happen?If “Terminator,” “The Matrix” and “2001: A Space Odyssey” taught us anything, it is that super-intelligent machines are bad news for humans. Now comes the new film, Transcendence, where a human brain is uploaded into a computer, with disturbing results. Could it actually happen?
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Catholic Earth Sprituality
– Spring is the season when life mysteriously remerges out of the cold winter soil. For Christians around the world, spring also means Easter: the celebration of Jesus’ ressurection. A growing number of Roman Catholics are making conscious connections between these two events–linking their faith and their concern for the earth. But as Richard Schiffman […]
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