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....
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhy 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....
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticleDefining 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...
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleScience 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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