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Daily Archives: September 23rd, 2016

My response to “The Myth of Sentient Machines”

Friday, September 23, 2016

There was a recent thread on the Systemshock.org forums in which Kolya linked to an article on cybernetics titled “The Myth of Sentient Machines” by some Bobby Azarian. Kolya was posting the article in agreement with Azarian, but he’s wrong. Dead wrong. And what is missing from the formulation that so many transhumanists and cyberneticists […]

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Next day (redux)

Friday, September 23, 2016
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Understanding fire

Friday, September 23, 2016

Fire is a chemical process of combustion. We all know that. It’s a very painful way to injure oneself. We know that too. But fire is also something else: a stimulus that works very hard to get you to avoid it. I’m sure you’d rather not get critically burned by fire–well, fire doesn’t want you […]

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Friday, September 23, 2016

[ EDIT ] [ TO-DO ] [ NOTE: DONE ]

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It’s a new day (redux)

Friday, September 23, 2016

The sun will rise soon. Let’s start here.

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