It’s
interesting to see that my posts on Sam
Harris’s FB page got deleted. Lately I’ve been highly critical of Sam
ever since he posted on his blog his support for racial/religious profiling. So aside from
my own critique I’ve been posting articles on Sam’s page with a common theme:
the War
on Terror is a never-ending pretense and Sam’s BIGGEST BLIND SPOT is
the National Security State…
But I will still
be watching you, Sam, and I will continue to passionately and
compassionately point out your intellectual blind spot if the situation calls
for it. Good thing I have my own blog which cannot be censored by Sam or his
intellectual groupies.
Curving Spacetime Inside the Human Brain: Holographs, Spacetime
Curvature, and Quantum Intensivity
from Networkologies by chris
Language
is a sort of collective brain, and the internet truly producing collective
intelligence. But just as particles, molecules, cells, and organs had to evolve
to work together to produce the freedom from constraint which is the virtual
reality machine of the brain, so human societies have to learn to cooperate if
we are to evolve to higher levels of complexity, and with this, freedom for any
and all. Only when parts and whole interpenetrate, and work as systems which
exceed the sums of their parts, is the emergence of complexity, and with this,
the evolution of something like the brain, possible. There are ethical lessons
to be learned from studying the emergence of complexity, the evolution of life
and thought, and the seeming attempt to bring freedom into matter, from quantum
to the brain and beyond.
On the ethics of robots from Love of All Wisdom by Amod Lele
Last
week the Economist ran
a cover
story on a philosophical topic: the ethics of robots. Not just the
usual ethical question one might ask about the ethics of developing robots in
given situation, but the ethics of the robots themselves. The
Economist is nothing if not pragmatic, and would not ask such a question if it
weren’t one of immediate importance. As it turns out, we are increasingly
programming machines to make decisions for us, such as military robots and
Google’s driverless cars… These sorts of questions lend appeal to
studying the ethics of the trolley problem, beyond the pedagogical uses I recommended
before.
Running away from the trolls - Hindustan Times New Delhi
There’s another category of Twitter user. It’s the
dedicated party line follower. There are the Congressis, but considerably more
vocal and energetic on Twitter are Hindutva loyalists. These are not
politicians (Sushma Swaraj, @SushmaSwarajBJP, for instance) or journalists who
make no secret about their affiliations. Oh no. These tweeters describe themselves
as ‘right wing fanatic’, ‘Modi fan’ or, a bit more subtly, ‘deshbhakt’. He (and
the rarer she) prefers Bharat to India ,
though he is often located in the US
It’s hard to explain the psychology of trolls. The
worst are guided by a vile ideology of hate, hunting in packs, venomous in
their rants and secure behind their anonymity. They follow each other, call out
to each other and encourage each other to collectively attack a common ‘enemy’…
But when Twitter dwindles to a platform for abuse it loses its sheen.
Who let the trolls in?
by Kanchan Gupta - Welcome to the
New Virtual World Order!
Trolls,
we were told by way of introduction to these supernatural beings, traced their
origin to Norse mythology. They were not particularly handsome in their
appearance, lived in mountain caves and had their own social code. Human beings
steered clear of them as they did of human beings… Meeting a troll in the misty
mountains of Hobbitland would have been a thrilling, if not delightful,
experience. Meeting a ‘troll’ on an online forum, especially an open forum like
Twitter, can prove to be neither thrilling nor delightful… In the virtual world
of social media, it’s absurd to feel angry or violated, not the least because
the millions out there give a damn about your feelings.
Is technology good for religion? from The Immanent Frame by David Sloane
At The Washington
Post, Lisa Miller argues that,
contrary to the beliefs of religious figures and political pundits, technology
is good for religion.
A Wake-Up Call to the Nation - Centre Right India Sunday,
June 10, 2012 Jaideep Prabhu · 5
Comments The following article is a spoof on a similar, recent article. The point is to show how easily an
argument can be framed if the burden of evidence is not placed on it. We should
be careful of what we say. But for now, just chuckle along!
Ibn
al-Dunya 23 hours ago in reply to Prashanth K.P. Sir,
you take the article too seriously :-) If you are a regular reader of CRI, you
would have noticed another article (http://centreright.in/2012/06/...)
I wrote in response to the article I am spoofing in this one. Someone can
basically turn that around on this one, except that I am joking in this one
whereas the original article was real. Hence, all your points are acknowledged,
and I point out again that this article is a spoof :-)
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