Good article: Atheism: The New Fundamentalism? ht…
Good article: Atheism: The New Fundamentalism? http://t.co/QiG2FBfGKH
Good article: Atheism: The New Fundamentalism? http://t.co/QiG2FBfGKH
Sam Harris is one of those prototypical #NewAtheists: He has a built-in sneer regarding any terms that smack to him of “religion”
@dlturn yeah, “perhaps” 🙂
@Nathan_Pensky would love to get on a brief Google Hangout with you to have a brief back and forth (or as long as you want). re:Related qtns
@Nathan_Pensky “Singularity is not near” piece was great. Best articulation of my qtn about Kurzweil’s thesis (see http://t.co/9Ftkj47fuy )
good pt. , esp. seeing corporate espionage of progress : “immutable progress irregardless of the wills of individuals http://t.co/fjdUgZoG0x
“For Kurzweil, advance[s in] technology [are] as inevitable as bio’ evolution & can be plotted on the same graph.” http://t.co/cpMMMAUFXM
“McGinn claims that Kurzweil has reduced the many different cognitive processes of the human brain to…” http://t.co/f9dojJ8P55
I wish Ray Kurzweil would write an expose on the stupidity and the Regressiveness and blockade to innovation represented by C*mc*st
Will “True Detective” end great or descend into “Twin Peaks” dopiness? Discuss.
I’m fully aware that this “new dimension to our thinking” is something I don’t yet understand – cuz if I did, it wouldnt be “new” 🙂
Blog post:To understand how the brain works will also take a new dimension to our thinking; but also…: http://t.co/AYjocFpr8e
My stated lone objection to Kurzweil’s #Singularity thesis is that despite the obvious continuing advancement in computer capability and affordability, Â simply reverse engineering the human brain still leaves us short of understanding how the brain (or “person”) takes the activity that we can measure or sense with imaging technology, Â and act upon that (although we can undoubtedly also measure the Continue Reading
Beginning to think Kurzweil may not ‘ve factored inCableCo factor into his projections re: #theSingularity. They may delay it for a decade.
@matthauger that’s @scrawford and “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age”