“Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.” — Immanuel Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment

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“The need for a new life becomes apparent. The code of established morality, that which governs the greater number of people in their daily life, no longer seems sufficient. What formerly seemed just is now felt to be a crying injustice.” — Peter Kropotkin, The Spirit of Revolt

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Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be Large language models can mimic thought and feeling with uncanny skill. But evidence from neuroscience suggests that intelligence alone is not enough for subjective experience. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #consciousness #AI #philsky

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“Do what nature demands. Get a move on — if you have it in you — and don’t worry whether anyone will give you credit for it. And don’t go expecting Plato’s Republic; be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (9.29)

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“There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.” — Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

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