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by erasemus 9y ago
The bulk of the effort goes into R&D for anti-drone tech (this includes monitoring what the bad guys are up to).
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by erasemus 9y ago
I would guess: we ban civilian drones from carrying explosives, nerve-toxins and other weapons; we invest the bulk of research effort in developing anti-drone drones. The anti-drone drones don't carry weapons that can be used against h
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by erasemus 9y ago
But that's a different problem.
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by erasemus 9y ago
How about positing a one-to-one correspondence between our subjective experiences and patterns of neuronal firings in our brains?
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by erasemus 9y ago
I remember at my school students were forced to choose between arts (AKA humanities) and sciences at 16. The science students were on the whole brighter than the arts students, through no fault of their own. The arts teachers tried to sweet
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by erasemus 9y ago
https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/quinqual.htm >What are qualia, exactly? Sets of associated ideas? For example, a door knob might be associated with (1) wood, (2) black, (3) grasping, (4) tur
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by erasemus 9y ago
The camera doesn't have (1) an attentional system, (2) a model of the world in memory, (3) a model of itself within that model.
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by erasemus 9y ago
Reading these studies nowadays feels like reading horoscopes. Chatty, interesting topics but strictly meaningless without an associated prediction or set of predictions of what will be found. (Predictions derived from theoretical explanatio