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Science in Review: A Droid in Every Garage

June 6, 2018 by Andy Walsh 2 Comments

Droid L3-37 from Solo: A Star Wars Story

What it does with ships, Solo also does for droids, taking a ubiquitous feature of the setting and giving them their day in the twin suns.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: film, free will, movies, Robots, science, science in review, star wars

Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed: Part II

May 11, 2012 by Roy Joseph No Comments

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

‘After Shock’ as a resource for wrestling with the crisis in Japan

March 17, 2011 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

How long will you hide your face from me? — Psalm 13:1 How does one Search for (and embrace) Honest Faith when your world is shaken? you’ve watched the world of others being shaken? you serve, minister to, walk with those whose world has been shaken? colleagues, family, friends bring the challenging question of where was […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Resources for ESN Members Tagged With: After Shock, Ash Wednesday, Christine A. Scheller, Christine Sine, Earthquake, Enel Angervil, Godspace, haiti earthquake, Japan Earthquake, Jubilee 2011, Kent Annan, lent, Robots

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