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EXAMPLES OF SYSTEMS WITH MENTAL QUALITIES

WEBGLOSSARY OF MENTAL QUALITIES Up: ASCRIBING MENTAL QUALITIES TO Previous: TWO METHODS OF DEFINITION EXAMPLES OF SYSTEMS WITH MENTAL QUALITIES. Let us consider some examples of machines and programs to which we may ascribe belief and goal structures.

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Nuclear Energy is the most certain future source.

WEBNuclear power can come from the fission of uranium, plutonium or thorium or the fusion of hydrogen into helium. Today it is almost all uranium. The basic energy fact is that the fission of an atom of uranium produces 10 million times the energy produced by the combustion of an atom of carbon from coal.

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What is progress

WEBWhat is Progress? People often get into arguments about what constitutes progress. Some say that what others regard as progress is not progress at all. Some people evaluate progress in relation to their notion of an ideal state of the world, i.e. progress is defined as progress towards utopia. As you will see, I am not a utopian.

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Human-Level AI Requires Compassionate Intelligence …

WEBothers spent considerable time on the issue of affect and rational thought. As we approach the goal of creating human-level AI or face the challenge of applications

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Facts from Cohen and others

WEBBernard Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Pittsburgh University. He is former president of the Health Physics Society, the main scientific society concerned with radiation safety. He has written several books on nuclear energy. Several of Cohen's papers are reproduced on Russ Paielli's nuclear page.

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The Linear Hypothesis (21-Dec-2000)

WEBThe Linear Hypothesis (21-Dec-2000) The Linear Hypothesis. It is very difficult to measure the incidence of cancer and other ailments caused by low level radiation. This is because the rates are very much lower than incidence of cancer from other (more usual) causes. One way of estimating the incidence is to give animals high doses of radiation

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FROM HERE TO HUMAN-LEVEL AI John McCarthy

WEBevant. It may not even be decided in ad-vance what phenomena are to be taken into account. The consequences of actions cannot be fully determined.

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WHAT INNOVATIONS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

WEBWHAT INNOVATIONS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Some inventions will make a real difference in human life like steamships, railroads, automobiles, telephones, radio, television, personal computers, vaccines and treatments for diseases.

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LIVING LONGER---LIVING MUCH LONGER ( 9-Dec-2007)

WEBLIVING LONGER---LIVING MUCH LONGER. There has been a substantial increase in the length of human life. [I'll provide some statistics in a future version of this page.]

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WORLD IDEOLOGIES EXPLAINED BY REFERENCE TO COWS

WEBWORLD IDEOLOGIES EXPLAINED BY REFERENCE TO COWS. FEUDALISM. You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. SOCIALISM. You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn. with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows.

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CS323: Common Sense Reasoning in Logic, Fall 1999

WEBHere is a list of the readings. This is the same information as in the bibliography of the syllabus.. Hal95 Joseph Y. Halpern. Reasoning about Knowledge.In D. Gabbay, editor, Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic …

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References on Sustainability

WEBReferences on Sustainability. Up to: Sustainability FAQ Up to: Main sustainability of progress page WWW references Statistics from a variety of sources are included in this auxiliary page.. A little of the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. is contained in their Web page. There is a CD-ROM with more extensive information than in the printed volume.

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THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA ( 9-Dec-2002)

WEBTHE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA. Suspend your disbelief and imagine the following miracle to have occurred: A young doctor working in a hospital discovers that he has the power to cure anyone under the age of seventy of any sickness or injury simply by touching the patient. Any contact, however brief, between any part of his skin and the skin of the

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SCIENTIFIC FORMS OF THE RELIGIOUS HYPOTHESIS ( 6-Apr-2008)

WEBThe religious hypothesis in its narrowest form is that the universe was designed and created by an intelligence. Another form is that some superhuman power frequently intervenes in life on earth. These hypotheses are distinct; one could …

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Chernobyl disaster

WEBCHERNOBYL Up to: Nuclear FAQ 2007 note: Here's a 1992 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Taking it properly into account would require modifying some of the details of the rest of this article. 2005 Sept 6: The World Health Organization (WHO) [www.who.int] has just released a major study on the effects of the Chernobyl accident.

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Sustainability of Human Progress

WEBThe assumptions they made about a lawful material world, the intrinsic unity of knowledge, and the potential for indefinite human progress are the ones we still take most readily to heart, suffer without, and find maximally rewarding as we learn more and more about the circumstances of our lives.

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