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  luca vanz

  

  Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

  The New Yorker - Elizabeth Kolbert

  New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason. In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had been composed by a random individual, the other …

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  luca vanz

  

  Moral luck

  Aeon Media - Robert J Hartman

  There is a contradiction in our ordinary ideas about moral responsibility. Let’s explore it by considering two examples. Killer, our first character, …

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  luca vanz

  

  Beyond the Five Senses

  The Atlantic - By Matthew Hutson

  Telepathy, echolocation, and the future of perception The world we experience is not the real world. It’s a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would our world change if we had new and different senses? Could they expand our universe? Technology …

• We are increasingly relying on machines that derive conclusions from models that they themselves have created, models that are often beyond human comprehension, models that “think” about the world differently than we do.
  
  But this comes with a price. This infusion of alien intelligence is bringing into question the assumptions embedded in our long Western tradition.  https://backchannel.com/our-machines-now-have-knowledge-well-never-understand-857a479dcc0e?curator=TechREDEF

  

  luca vanz

  Apr 18, 2017
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  luca vanz

  

  10 scariest theories known to man.

  imgur.com

  Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, …