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Hard-Boiled Wonderland as a Metaphor for Life
I immediately saw this book as a metaphor for the way we live. While we exist consciously in our reality, we subconsciously exist in a world inside our heads, represented by the parallel of the even (End of the world) … Continue reading
Humans Controlling Rats with Thoughts
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/162678-harvard-creates-brain-to-brain-interface-allows-humans-to-control-other-animals-with-thoughts-alone The subject of the article above is a study that was conducted at Harvard University in an attempt to allow the human brain to control an animal with thought. Researchers at Harvard used brain-to-brain Interface to connect to a rat. The … Continue reading
Skeptical about Singularity
After watching Ray Kurzweil’s video on singularity, I had no doubt that at some point our intelligence will be so high that we will be able to take objects such as a rock and make them useful technologically, but I … Continue reading
Ghost in the Shell: From human to Robot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZX58fDhebc The scene above was by far my favorite scene. It is when the half robot on the table is inhabited by the Puppet Master and he basically begins to reveal what life is in his mind. He states his … Continue reading
Second Life
While exploring Second Life, I appreciated that we were able to see sites that you can only see from certain parts of the world, as shown in my screenshot. It was virtual reality but I also saw it as an … Continue reading
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Hyperreal in my life: Video Games
Immersive video gaming is starting to become a part of the lives of video gamers to date but has not become so big that it has consumed us. There is a company called Oculus VR which produces goggles that immerse … Continue reading
Drugs and Technology: Limitations and expansion
One of the major themes of the novel Neuromancer was the use of drugs and how these drugs would make it so Case would be able to function. Here, drugs are seen as an enabler of Case. One of the … Continue reading
“Buddhist Robot” and Lydia Liu
At first mention of the Buddhist robot and the fact that the goal of Buddhism is to reach an enlightened state, I immediately thought back to Isaac Asimov’s “Robot Dreams” in which the robot seems to reach another level of … Continue reading
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When is the taking of a life beneficial to the lives of others?
While reading Frankenstein after each death, I wonder at what point would it be completely acceptable to kill the monster. When the Monster finds Frankenstein and admits that he killed his brother William, why did Victor not just kill the … Continue reading
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