self-consciousness‚ our awareness and monitoring of what we are doing and thinking (Andrade‚ 2010). Pinker (1997) summarises these aspects in three: sentience or Block’s (1995‚ as cited in Andrade‚ 2010) phenomenal awareness; access to information or Block’s (ibid.) access consciousness; and self-knowledge. Chalmers (1996‚ as cited in Andrade‚ 2010) refer to sentience as the ‘hard problem’ whilst access consciousness is the ‘easy problem’.
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The terms liberal and conservative are used more than others in academia‚ political conversations‚ and by the media. However‚ it is doubtful that many people have a clear understanding of what each label represents and the differences they signify. It is difficult to pickup an editorial page of any newspaper without reading about the in-fighting of conservatives and liberals in either the house of representatives or the senate or other political groups due to the fact that these terms are often used
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‘Strong Artificial intelligence’. Strong artificial intelligence refers specifically to the artificial intelligence that is meant to exceed human intelligence and is associated with certain characteristics such as consciousness‚ self-awareness‚ sentience‚ and sapience (Steels 75-110). There is a multitude of possible representations of artificial intelligence in the world of science fiction. However‚ I don’t have huge repertoire of references for science fictions because my personal preferences
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Philosophy 373-Paper assignment The purpose of this assignment is simply to present a (more) detailed elaboration of an author’s view; or to contrast two competing authors’ views; or to develop your reaction to an author’s view; or to relate an outside source (see below) to one of the topics under consideration. The content can be culled from any of the readings on the syllabus. This is not intended as a “term paper” or “research paper”. It can be adequately completed simply from the textual
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What is the significance of five consecutive “zero’s” following the number fifteen? One and a half million lives of children would be saved per year in the United States if abortion were to be delegalized (Alcorn). Abortion has been a long lasting issue in the United States‚ specifically since the famous decision of Roe v. Wade in 1973. There are various problems‚ not just moral issues with legalizing abortion. Legalizing abortion denies the right of the child to have the choice to live‚ is morally
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total? 1. 100 b) 20 c) 45 d) 50 Q.5: 1. 100 b) 20 c) 45 d) 50 Q.6: Which of the following words will appear fourth in the dictionary? 1. Sentiment b) Separate c) Sentinel d) Sentience Q.6: Sentiment Q.7 – Q.12 b) Separate c) Sentinel Passage – I d) Sentience Page 252 of 280 Read the following passage and answer the questions from Q.7 to 12 given below it. P‚Q‚R‚S‚T and U are six persons travelling together in a Boat. Three of them Q‚ R and T are women
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and pain is the most important factor for moral consideration. If a being has the capacity to feel pain and pleasure‚ then Singer thinks we have a responsibility towards them. He rejects moral rights as inherent to every species and proposes that sentience is a requirement for status since he maintains most animals do not care about whether we kill them and use them for our own purposes: they care only about how we treat them when we do use and kill them. Just like humans‚ animals have interests of
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Dornan‚ E. A. & Robert Dees (2008). Four in one: rhetoric‚ reader‚ research guide‚ and handbook (4th ed.). New York: Pearson Education‚ Inc. Proud to Be a Speciesist Stephen Rose I research on animals. I study the intimate chemical and electrical processes that are the brain’s mechanisms for storing information‚ for learning and memory. To discover those mechanisms‚ I analyse the cellular changes that occur when young chicks learn and remember simple tasks. An anti-vivisectionist once asked me
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In his essay‚ Peter Singer defines a term‚ speciesism‚ which means the “attitude of bias toward the interests of members of one’s own species and against those of members of other species”(204). Singer compares the speciesists with racists in order to emphasize that like racists who “give greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race”(206)‚ the speciesists “give greater weight to the interests
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Imagine yourself at work‚ going through your daily routine‚ when all of the sudden‚ your boss comes over and says you are being taken to a lab to be cut up and experimented upon. This is exactly what happens to Commander Data from (its) point of view in Star Trek‚ The Next Generation‚ Season 2‚ Episode 9. Commander Data is an Android (An android is a robot in humanoid form and with sufficient computational capacity that the android can navigate reality and contribute to reality with minimal dangerous
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