Category: Dasein Philosophy
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The mall. Death. Gone.
A mall gone. Abandoned. A shadow of its glorious past (1, 2) What was full is now empty. And yet, something still seems alive. Where people were, now no one is. And yet, something still fills the room. Where noise and music filled the space, now silence fills the room. And yet, it seems to say…
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Hoopa, lost artifacts, modern nihilism...
As High Country News describes it, the Hoopa Tribal Museum is more like a borrowing library than a display museum. If you're a member of the northern California tribe, you can check out the museum's artifacts to use in ceremonies. Pretty cool. There's one strange catch, however. Some of the artifacts are poisoned, literally. Museum…
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GPS, position, footsteps...
Quantum positioning system will soon step in when GPS fails. IN 2016 a British submarine will slip its moorings and set sail under the guidance of the quantum world. The navigation system it will be testing should record the vessel's position with 1000 times more accuracy than anything before. (1) Try to trace your…
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Sentient machines. Thinking in wholes. The impossibility of AI.
Sentient machines may never exist, according to a variation on a leading mathematical model of how our brains create consciousness. Over the past decade, Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleagues have developed a mathematical framework for consciousness that has become one of the most influential theories in the field. According to…
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Death penalty - We are all inmates...
Terminally ill people who want to die can take drugs to end their lives peacefully. Ailing pets are put down humanely every day. Clearly, the technology exists to bring about a quick and painless death. Why, then, do executions by lethal injection sometimes become troubling spectacles? The death in Oklahomaof Clayton D. Lockett, amid struggling…
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