Every question has two lives, first in philosophy and then in technology. Robotics, synthetic life, virtual reality - these were once in the province of fiction and metaphysics and are now seen as technological questions. While machine intelligence is fascinating and some of us can't sleep at night for fear of waking up to rogue robots taking over the world, our every day lives have been transformed by a different metaphysical conundrum turned technological solution. I am talking about the nature of identity, that oldest of metaphysical questions exercising everyone from the Buddha to Hume.
Multiple Identity Syndrome: Newsletter #31.
Multiple Identity Syndrome: Newsletter #31.
Multiple Identity Syndrome: Newsletter #31.
Every question has two lives, first in philosophy and then in technology. Robotics, synthetic life, virtual reality - these were once in the province of fiction and metaphysics and are now seen as technological questions. While machine intelligence is fascinating and some of us can't sleep at night for fear of waking up to rogue robots taking over the world, our every day lives have been transformed by a different metaphysical conundrum turned technological solution. I am talking about the nature of identity, that oldest of metaphysical questions exercising everyone from the Buddha to Hume.