If complexity is a necessary but not sufficient premise for the existence and expression of the living, anticipation is the distinguishing characteristic of what is alive. Anticipa...
Bill Joy's deep pessimism is now famous. "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us," his defense of that pessimism, has been read by, it seems, everyone -- and many of t...
: Some intuitive normative principles raise vexing „detaching problems‟ by their failure to license modus ponens. I examine three such principles (a self-reliance principle and...
Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than human...