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...pictures are of bare women, stripped down to their undergarments and untainted by any real external distractions-their naked shoulders, backs, stomachs, legs and buttocks. The women are nude or close to nude, but they're not flesh on display; they exist purely and magnificently in themselves. Every blemish and detail is defined in its natural state, but they aren't imperfections or flaws. Rather, they are celebrations of the beauty of the unaffected womanly body, of mothers and friends and sisters. There is no pretense involved...
...test to determine when computers had achieved this consciousness. Turing's test goes as follows: Imagine you are talking with an unknown entity on, say, instant messenger. If after an unlimited period of time you cannot tell if the entity you are communicating with is a computer or a flesh-and-blood human, then we must treat this computer as conscious. Turing's point was in many ways an epistemological **2) or empirical?** one: We can only define consciousness by the behavior we observe in other entities. So, basically, because you believe your roommates to be conscious only because...
...step in the evolution of computer consciousness. While we cannot really think of a computer running this "babbler" program as having a fully human-like intelligence, we can consider it to be a viable presidential candidate. Well, to be fair, this "artificial" candidate has one major advantage over its flesh-and-blood cousin--with a flick of a switch its inane babbling is silenced...
...enough, but the drive-through, open since April, further degrades women. He and others meet weekly at Pastor Beth Hans' Straight to the Heart Ministry to write protest letters to judges and politicians. Pastor Hans says she's been counseling men who are fighting the temptation of drive-through flesh. "They get off work and go over there, and their wives are home wondering, 'What is wrong with this relationship...
...Wednesday night at the Senate's annual dinner for major donors, he sat with lobbyists at a table guarded by the Secret Service and then slipped away without slapping one back. At a Labor Day parade in Illinois, as George W. Bush careened from side to side pressing the flesh, Cheney kept in formation like a drill sergeant...