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Doctor Bot Ed

Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed: Part II

May 11, 2012 by Roy Joseph Leave a Comment

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Picking up from Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed (5/10/2012) . . . Back to Robots!! Personally, despite my earlier remonstration, I would be quite happy to learn all sorts of subjects from a robot. A robot is not going to rob us of our humanity and despoil our personhood – after all, we have less to fear from machines ‘wanting' to behave like humans, as much as humans wanting to behave like machines (Hence, my prefatory diatribe against the social engineering of technocrats and their worrisome bedfellows in academic … [Read more...] about Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed: Part II

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Technology in Higher Ed Tagged With: consciousness, Doctor Bot Ed, Hippocampus, mathematics, Robots, Roman General Marcus Claudius Marcellu, The Ph.D. Octopus, William James

Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed

May 10, 2012 by Roy Joseph 3 Comments

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This post is a patchwork of tattered reflections on a slew of topics ranging from humans behaving like robots to robots behaving like humans, mind-reading technologies, maybe cyborgs and so forth. There is no grand thesis tucked away in a prose that finds low triviality and high seriousness equally endearing. The hope here is that the reader, if any, would walk away feeling enough esprit to want to grab somebody gently and engage in debate until the Holy Spirit returns our souls to the still waters. “Be Still and know … [Read more...] about Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Life in the Academy, Technology in Higher Ed Tagged With: Alan Turing, artificial intelligence, C. S. Lewis, Can Machines think?, David Berlinski, Doctor Bot Ed, John Keats, John Milton, John Ruskin, Kafka, Kevin Warwick, King John, Lucifer, Orwell, Pardise Lost, Robots, Roger Schank, Satan, Thomas Jefferson, Tour of the Calculus, Wordsworth

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