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...course, it's always possible that Cog does have a kind of consciousness--a consideration that neither Dennett nor Chalmers rules out. But even then the mystery would persist, for you could still account for all the behavior by talking about physical processes, without ever mentioning feelings. And so too with humans. This, says Chalmers, is the mystery of the "extraness" of consciousness. And it is crystallized, not resolved, by advances in artificial intelligence. Because however human machines become--however deftly they someday pass the Turing test, however precisely their data flow mirrors the brain's data flow--everything they...
...College Pride of Springfield came out on fire. Before the match even began, the squad's rousing chants could be heard echoing through the halls. In contrast, the Crimson appeared to be flat and unemotional. But this lack of enthusiasm would not persist...
...putting them back under the pressure of hard times that persist for some workers even in the good times for the stock market. Blue-collar voters, most of them white and male, have been crucial to the G.O.P. coalition since the late 1960s, when they started to abandon the Democrats because of everything called liberalism--meaning, roughly, racial integration plus sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. So long as the economic grievances of those voters were secondary to their distaste for the '60s and its aftermath, the G.O.P. could court them without compromising its pro-business orthodoxies...
...Everything I buy is made in India or Mexico, and it all falls apart," said Charlie O'Brian, a Manchester resident who agreed that the government should stop permitting a trade deficit to persist. "I read the other day that we import more stuff than we sell to other countries...
Signs of Islamicization can also be seen in civilian life. Koran schools have begun to open all across Muslim-controlled Bosnia, mosques enjoy bigger attendance than ever, and imams vociferously condemn those who persist in drinking alcohol and eating pork. But does all this mean that Bosnia is turning into a fundamentalist state...