I’m reading Douglas Hofstadter’s new book I Am A Strange Loop just now, and just ran into my first significant disagreement with him (in this book, that is). On page 76, after describing a walk along an airport concourse during which various scents evoke numerous associations, he writes (emphases in the original):
Each of these examples […]
This is from an article at TimesOnline (quoted without permission):
A study commissioned by the Government that suggests robots could one day have rights was attacked by leading scientists yesterday as a red herring that has diverted attention from more pressing ethical issues.
Researchers studying robotics said that the Robo-rights document, published in December and sponsored by […]
This is just to mark the fact that I’ve decided to rationalize my personal and philosophy websites and unite them here at robinfaichney.org, which becomes a blog. Still not entirely sure the blog format is the way to go, but there’s one way to find out…
