Archive for March, 2010
A movie with its heart in the right place, but…
…to be honest I haven’t seen Being In The World yet (it doesn’t seem to have been released), so what follows is based on the website, but there are enough trailers, clips and text there to get me thinking. Being In The World is a new movie by Tao Ruspoli, and, as is common these [...]
March 30, 2010
Posted in: AI, philosophy, psychology 
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The brights, mysticism and me
I recently joined the brights. What’s a bright? A bright is a person who has a naturalistic worldview A bright’s worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements The ethics and actions of a bright are based on a naturalistic worldview That’s from the website’s home page. Naturalism is “the doctrine that the world can [...]
March 2, 2010
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