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Immanentizing the cybernetic eschaton. Neuro/Psych, Phenomenology & Teleology @duqedu DeSci, AI & Consciousness @praxsci Science everywhere Plus rowing

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Sean Manion
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AI's true name is teleology. I'll be delivering a lecture on what was once, and can be again, alignment between the machine, human and transcendent. "Cybernetics, Phenomenology & Teleology" Dec 4th, 4-6pm at Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, Pittsburgh, PA.
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Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a
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AI was once a subfield of psychology
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First textbook on AI, primary editor and undergrad assistant.
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Go to the theater. Get inspired
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"Third wheel" parent of AI
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He tried to warn us on his death bed that we had oversimplified the complexity of the brain. We still haven't listened.
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She single handedly ended the first AI winter paving the way for all the "godfather" to get funding for his post-doc
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There's 85 billion of the things on the left making up the thing on the right which makes up you But there's also 100 billion glia And subcellular and epi/genetic complexity that makes the macro level pale in comparison Of course 90% of the neurons are in the cerebellum so...
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Thinking AI started at Dartmouth in 1956 is like thinking baseball started with the Sosa McGwire race
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If you don't own a bindle, are you really living?
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Bertrand Russell was a reviewer of the 1932 book. As a result, Morris notes in the Preface, "Mr. Bertrand Russell's restatement of his analysis of mind has been inserted bodily in the chapter, 'Mind as a Relation'"
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Choose your fighters!
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Feles ex machina
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This unfinished "big thing" from DFW is one of the best mediations on complexity, boredom, bureaucracy and power written in the last 100 years
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Astro(cyte) and Ollie(godendrocyte) My cats are named after glial cells This means they are more relevant to intelligence than 99.9999% of AI
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This is a funny read for me as I head back into academia
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You could PhD dissertation tying these two books together across fields from AI to epistemology to sociology.
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There will be signs
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This book is underappreciated. Insightful
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To understand the future of corporate governance, look to the past
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50+ years ago, people were writing emails to explain AI and other people were printing them out
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