Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GHOST IN THE MACHINE...
...close to a tangible memorial as Oklahoma City has managed to create in the year since the nearly 2 1/2-ton bomb exploded. It stands at the center of a flat, hard, raw and windswept place; this section of downtown, already in decline before the blast, is now a virtual ghost town. For Americans far from Oklahoma, the hole blown out of our sense of safety and stability at 9:02 a.m. last April 19 has mostly healed. But for those without the advantage of distance--for the families of the 168 people killed and the more than 600 injured...
...during those 1,455 or so days when we're not voting? Work on a political campaign? Perhaps. But I think there are plenty of more direct ways of helping in the meantime, in that forgotten span of time between one set of PAC-and corporation-backed campaigns and ghost-written speeches and the next...
...between Chalmers and Dennett--the debate over how mysterious mind is or isn't--lie in the work of Dennett's mentor at Oxford University, Gilbert Ryle. In 1949 Ryle published a landmark book called The Concept of Mind. It resoundingly dismissed the idea of a human soul--a "ghost in the machine," as Ryle derisively put it--as a hangover from prescientific thought. Ryle's juiciest target was the sort of soul imagined back in the 17th century by Rene Descartes: an immaterial, somewhat autonomous soul that steers the body through life. But the book subdued enthusiasm for even...
...technology has kept taking tasks from human beings and giving them to machines, undermining the bedrock notion of mass employment." It cites such examples as General Motors, which can make as many cars today with 185,000 fewer employees than in the 1970s. "Behind every A.T.M. flutter the ghost of three human tellers," the Times wrote ominously...