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Will Artificial Intelligence Fall in Love?

November 15, 2017October 31, 2018 Gabrielle Torre 1 Comment AI, androïdes, androids, Artificial Intelligence, artificiellement intelligents, cortical-subcortical networks, Dolores Test, Emotion, facteur g, g factor, Intelligence, L'émotion, l'intelligence, Love, Luiz Pessoa, Philip K. Dick, PKD, réseaux cortico-sous-corticaux, Science Fiction, Westworld

n a few months, millions of viewers will return to Westworld, the HBO original series about artificially intelligent androids inhabiting a Western theme park. The show, based on a 1973… Read more

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The Ultimate Thought Experiment Part I: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

May 3, 2017October 29, 2017 Joel Frohlich 3 Comments AI, android, Artificial Intelligence, Blade Runner, China brain, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Gedankenexperiment, Graham Sleight, Hans Christian Oersted, mood organ, Ned Block, Philip K. Dick, pupillometry, Science Fiction, thought experiment

Let’s imagine something crazy. What if each person in China was ordered to simulate a neuron in a brain, making an enormous “China brain?” Every participant in this grand experiment… Read more

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Does Free Will Exist?

April 27, 2016July 10, 2017 Joel Frohlich 1 Comment Addiction, Alexander Batthyany, algorithm, Arthur Schopenhauer, Benjamin Libet, Brain, cellular automata, Daniel Dennett, determinism, Dice, Dopamine, EEG, Fate, Free Will, Huntington’s disease, Jack the Ripper, John-Dylan Haynes, Libet, Michael Gazzaniga, neurodegenerative, Nucleus accumbens, Philip K. Dick, Pierre-Simon Laplace, quantum indeterminacy

It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon. Professor Freeman is enjoying the Southern California weather on Professor Domino’s patio. Domino: Will it be Coke or Pepsi, Dr. Freeman? Freeman: That’s an easy… Read more

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