NYTimes on Theodicy August 21, 2007
Posted by mwj as games, mind, philosophy, technology. 5 comments.It’s unsettling to think of the world being run by a futuristic computer geek, although we might at last dispose of that of classic theological question: How could God allow so much evil in the world? For the same reason there are plagues and earthquakes and battles in games like World of Warcraft. Peace is boring, Dude.
– NYTimes, Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch
Machines and the mind September 10, 2006
Posted by mwj as mind, philosophy, self. 2 comments.Less than a month before world chess champion Gary Kasparov was defeated by Deep Blue, Harper’s Magazine held a forum entitled “Our Machines, Ourselves.” The dialogue has been included in the coursepaq (Doede’s spelling) for a course I am taking entitled “Philosophy of the Mind.” Below are some excerpts:
“The only instinct that has proved more consistently human than our drive to invent tools has been our need to demonstrate our superiority over them.” (more…)