If AI is that which lives through computational language, would it feel, have desires and sensations? Yes, much observational human behavior can be translated into computations, and even be personified through our perception of them as "beings," but can you truly translate human sensations of feeling, not only emotive response, but subjective bodily feeling? Would …
Obscenity
I don't want to see this because I can't unsee it. But when I finally watched it I understood, nobody is going home.Dave Chappelle, 8:46 I first discovered Dave Chappelle's comedic art through his speech, 8:46, posted on Youtube addressed to his local community in Ohio in response to the murder of George Floyd by …
AI & Consciousness
If AI "aims" to do anything, as the writer of this article from Scientific American suggests, therefore displaying self-arising intentions beyond its programming, is it not displaying some form of sentience or consciousness? The death of the mind of the fictional HAL 9000 AI computer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey provides another illustrative example. The …
Forgiveness
forgive (v.)Old English forgiefan "give, grant, allow; remit (a debt), pardon (an offense)," also "give up" and "give in marriage" (past tense forgeaf, past participle forgifen); from for-, here probably "completely," + giefan "to give" (from PIE root *ghabh- "to give or receive").The sense of "to give up desire or power to punish" (late Old …
All and Nothing
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you have to start with the big bang."Carl Sagan Objectivity We may or may not begin with time, the big bang, matter from nothing, or from within countless other stories shared among us. We may take the root sense of being for granted because the …
Theoria 