There is something downright misleading about the term ‘artificial intelligence’ – the term is misleading because whilst what we’re talking about here might be artificial, it has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence. No one is really trying to argue...
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It is in the nature of reality to ‘pretend to be what it isn't’ (or to 'hide its true nature from us’) says Heraclitus. Stuff isn't straightforward in the way we always think it is, in other words. Things -...
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A 'game' can be neatly defined as ‘that set of prescribed actions which comes into being as a result of following a particular set of arbitrary rules’. The activity that takes place in a game is unfree therefore - it’s...
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Any one of us can turn into a machine at the drop of a hat, and this can happen at any time. It can happen quite without warning – one moment you're human being, the next you're a mechanoid, a...
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The situation where we are exclusively relating to our own projections (in place of actual reality) is a profoundly sterile one - no change could ever take place here, no matter how long we stick at it. No change can...
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