14Jun 2023 by Post

All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)

autonomous weapons, Buying God, Capitalism’s Toxic Assumptions, China, consciousness, David J. Gunkel, emotions, Eve Poole, hard problem of consciousness, human beings, ineffability, Intelligent Design, junk code, Leadersmithing, machines, Neuroscience & Mind, Northern Illinois University, personhood, Robot Souls, robots, Russia, Ryota Kanai, sixth sense, soul, Taylor & Francis, TechXplore, The Economist
In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them. Source
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15Dec 2019 by Post

Media in a Swoon over Death Doctor and His Suicide Machine

assisted suicide, Australia, Bon Jovi, cancer, elderly people, euthanasia, euthanasia drugs, human vivisection, Jack Kevorkian, Katherine Jean Lopez, Medicine, Nancy Crick, National Review, Philip Nitschke, Sarco, suicide pills, The Economist
The mainstream media mostly went head over heels over Jack Kevorkian’s ghoulish assisted suicide campaign, rarely mentioning that his ultimate goal was to gain the right to conduct human vivisection on people being euthanized. Suicide Pod Machine The Australian Kevorkian — Philip Nitschke — hasn’t advocated that. But he has traveled the world teaching people how to commit suicide, published a suicide recipe he invented made of common household ingredients, and pushed a pernicious death-on-demand philosophy. Now The Economist swoons over “the bad boy of the euthanasia movement,” touting his new suicide pod machine in a profile of a length few presidents have received. From “A Design for Death”: My host’s name is Philip Nitschke and he’s invented a machine called Sarco. Short for sarcophagus, the slick, spaceship-like pod has a seat…
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