Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be completely determined by programming but would behave as if it were a free, intelligent agent. "If something that we knew was just a machine could behave intelligently," he muses, "it would tend to suggest that maybe we are just machines." Would such computers have to be considered conscious beings? Would they raise a civil liberties problem? To some, such questions suggest that science is creating more problems than philosophy can readily cope with; and concepts like antimatter and the expanding universe make some philosophers quite nervous...
...plans to install three more of the $260,000 optical scanners in Detroit and two more in Buffalo, with others to follow in major mail centers across the country. Though each optical scanner can do the work of twelve mail clerks, Postmaster General O'Brien has promised automation-conscious Detroit that "no employee will lose his job as a result of the machines." With U.S. mail volume rising at the rate of 2.3 billion pieces a year, he says, the Post Office needs even more men to move it. Moreover, no one has yet designed an optical scanner that...
...kids to the nearby Hinsdale Health Museum to view pictures and models of human organs and the prenatal growth of a baby. At that age level, explains Superintendent Oscar M. Chute, "they're able to learn, but are still not emotionally and physically involved and less self-conscious...
Contrary to the Marxists and the socialists, Keynes opposed government ownership of industry and fought those centralists who would plan everything ("They wish to serve not God but the devil"). While he called for conscious and calculated state intervention, he argued just as passionately that the government had no right to tamper with individual freedoms to choose or change jobs, to buy or sell goods, or to earn respectable profits. He had tremendous faith that private men could change, improve and expand capitalism...
...disguise" and conjugating in clandestine convents with unnatural nuns. By 1951, according to Senator McCarthy, the perennial enemy had planted agents in the Truman Cabinet. By 1958, according fo "detailed evidence" collected by the founder of the John Birch Society, President Eisenhower had actually been converted into a "dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy." And soon after that, still others with inside information reported that supreme command of the U.S. armed forces had secretly been transferred to a Russian colonel attached to the United Nations...