Can Machines think – CAPTCHA and the Turing test
Mar20

Can Machines think – CAPTCHA and the Turing test

Can machines think ? Computer genius Alan Turing tried to answer this philosophical question by devising the Turing test. You might be surprised to find that you take part in this regularly with CAPTCHAs

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Top Five Thought Experiments
Jan13

Top Five Thought Experiments

Thought experiments are mental hypotheses, used by philosophers as ways of illuminating complex ideas. Here’s 5 of the top hot topics.

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Is free will an illusion ?
Nov08

Is free will an illusion ?

What would you say if scientists could show that brain activity to press a button occurred 7 seconds before you consciously made the decision to even do so ?

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Mind & Body – Where do they begin and end
Sep16

Mind & Body – Where do they begin and end

The Mind-Body problem. One of philosophy’s great topics of conjecture and debate. How are mental phenomena explicable in terms of, or otherwise related to, physical states and events in the body ?

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Brain in a Vat – What is Reality
May13

Brain in a Vat – What is Reality

What if the concepts put forward by the films “The Matrix” and “Vanilla Sky” were real ?

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