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Two AI’s talking

Check out this excellent video of two artificial intelligences talking. I find it amusing that one of them fails the Turing test even when faced the other one. How very very quickly it does that....

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Can there be evil thoughts?

Lately I have been thinking a lot about evil. This could be mostly because I am studying it as a philosophical concept. In the last seminar we have spoken about evil thoughts, and asked can we be taken...

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The Moral and Aesthetic Distinction

In matters of morality, our notions of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, and ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are known to us through our intuitive thoughts which act as the experience of morality. In aesthetics what we consider...

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Why behaviourism is wrong

I’ve been reading Searle’s “The Rediscovery of the Mind” and I found this nugget: “The principle on which we ‘solve’ the problem of other minds, … , is not: same-behaviour-ergo-same-mental-phenomena....

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Can we punish evil intent?

Lately I have been thinking a lot about evil. This could be mostly because I am studying it as a philosophical concept. In the last seminar we have spoken about evil thoughts, and asked can we be taken...

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Defining evil.

A question often left out when talking about evil is that of objective evil. Is it possible for us to hold such a view rationally? It seems we have these vague intuitions which scarcely hold up when...

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Can normative ignorance help excuse moral wrongs?

In a recent Philosophy Bites podcast professor Gideon Rosen outlined three types of excuses which can help at least lower moral responsibility for bad acts. Those are: 1. Blameless ignorance of the...

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The Grandfather Paradox

The Grandfather Paradox is one of the better known problems in philosophy. It can be very briefly summarised as follows: if time travel is possible, then it should be possible to go back in time and...

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Science will be able to read your mind

via Kottke Okay, don’t panic. Science can’t read your thoughts just yet. However, they can kind of vaguely reproduce what you see using youtube videos. Here is vaguely what it looks like: And you can...

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