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Robotics: Ethics of artificial intelligence
Four leading researchers share their concerns and solutions for reducing societal risks from intelligent machines. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.nature.com
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Bodies of Water
The apparatus of disappearance is a capitalist ritual of creating ghosts. Disappearance is intrinsic to capitalism, to Western modernity, which is always already prepared to dispose of these othered humans along lines of racialized poverty. Disappearance in this sense, of the necropolitical creation of disposable classes that are prone to…
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asking pardon of the spirit of the tree
Originally posted on coromandal: Imagine asking pardon of the spirit of the tree before cutting a branch, of the mountain before extracting stone for aggregate, of the lake before fishing, the stream before removing water, the sky taking a bird, the earth mining minerals. Processes would slow down, awareness of the nature of…
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Recognizing Human Dignity
It is risky to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases based on what the justices say at the oral argument. But Kennedy’s commitment to the principle of human dignity and his understanding of its role in protecting intimate relationships run deep. If Bonauto and her colleagues succeed in winning…
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Occupying Space
A man should be so poor that he is not and has not a place for God to act in. To reserve a place would be to maintain distinctions. Meister Eckhart quoted in Merton, Thomas. Zen and the Birds of Appetite. A New Directions Book, 1968, 26. iBooks. I am…
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NYU as a Model for Predatory Higher Education
The Art of the Gouge… describes how NYU engages in a mind-numbing range of tricks and traps to extract as much in fees as possible from students, while at the same time failing to invest in and often degrading the educational “product” Source: www.truth-out.org
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Capitalism Could Kill All Life on Earth
Are we going to let capitalism destroy life on Earth? According to 99 percent of climate scientists – we’ll know by the end of the century. Source: www.truth-out.org
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Knowledge Advances By a Series of Funerals
The boundaries between true intellectual disciplines are currently enforced by little more than university budgets and architecture… The real distinction we should care about — the observation of which is the sine qua non of the scientific attitude — is between demanding good reasons for what one believes and being…
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Remember This: Capitalism IS Race
… It’s not just a race. Consider the radical beginning of Memorial Day in the now forgotten Decoration Day, a holiday that originally recalled the violent partisan political struggles of emancipation as a central aspect of remembrance. At least until… 1877, [when] the Northern capitalist establishment decisively turned their backs on…
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The New Eye – Visionary Art and Tradition | Mundus Imaginalis
Source: www.mundusimaginalis.org
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Luciano Floridi on the Philosophy of Information
The philosophy of information is a new area of research. We didn’t study it when we were students, partly because we didn’t realise that the glasses were on our noses. There’s a lot of philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the present day that discusses what we now think of…
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Soul loss: the shaman’s diagnosis of our existential complaints – Dream Gates
The greatest contribution of the ancient shamans to our medicine and healing today is the understanding that in the course of any life we are liable to suf Source: www.beliefnet.com
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►Greek Mythology: “Athena, Goddess of Wisdom”.-
“Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom and Knowledge” by Willem De Poorter. (17th century). Source: aquileana.wordpress.com
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This Flower-Filled Abandoned House Is Bringing A Bit Of Life Back To Detroit
Late one evening this month, a woman appeared in the second-story window of an abandoned house overlooking a Detroit freeway. A spotlight illuminated her face as she flung handfuls of white petals down to the crowd gathered outside a venue that felt more like the setting of a dark fairytale…
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