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Consider, says Chalmers, the robot named Cog, being developed at M.I.T.'s artificial-intelligence lab with input from Dennett (see following story). Cog will someday have "skin"--a synthetic membrane sensitive to contact. Upon touching an object, the skin will send a data packet to the "brain." The brain may then instruct the robot to recoil from the object, depending on whether the object could damage the robot. When human beings recoil from things, they too are under the influence of data packets. If you touch something that's dangerously hot, the appropriate electrical impulses go from hand to brain...
...primary reason we object to third-trimester abortions is not that they present added danger to the mother but instead that we believe the older fetus has a right to life comparabale to that of a newborn baby. If a young fetus is morally equivalent to an older fetus, then the arguments about privacy, rape, retardation and the mother's right to choose do not provide adequate justification for abortion. If the young fetus is a rights-bearing person, then the staff's points are outweighted; if the young fetus is not a rights-bearing person, then the staff...
...early experimental film by Thomas Edison, seems strange and haunting at the beginning of "The Celluloid Closet" but even more so at the end, where it is used to great effect, bookending the progress shown in the film, in which such images began as innocuous and then became an object of prurient curiosity and hatred, finally, as the directors hint, a symbol of possibility and hope...
...much as he might object to some forms of secular learning, Farmer has a doctorate in chemistry from Harvard. And many other church members said they are pursuing advanced degrees at local universities...
...object to] the means they have adopted to recruit members on campus," Epps told The Crimson last winter, citing two complaints brought against the BCC for recruiting on campus that year...