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Author: Jonathan Strahan Publisher: ISBN: 9781616647599 Category : Fantasy literature, American Languages : en Pages : 476
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Original novellas by six science fiction authors, each involving the concept of a mechanism or device so large and complex that it is difficult for humans to grasp all its implications and functions.
Author: Wendell Wallach Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199737975 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 288
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"Moral Machines is a fine introduction to the emerging field of robot ethics. There is much here that will interest ethicists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and roboticists." ---Peter Danielson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews --
Author: Jonathan Strahan Publisher: ISBN: 9781616647599 Category : Fantasy literature, American Languages : en Pages : 476
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Original novellas by six science fiction authors, each involving the concept of a mechanism or device so large and complex that it is difficult for humans to grasp all its implications and functions.
Author: Robert M. Geraci Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199964009 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 246
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Apocalyptic AI, the hope that we might one day upload our minds into machines and live forever in cyberspace, is a surprisingly wide-spread and influential idea. Robert Geraci points out that the rhetoric of 'Apocalyptic AI' is strikingly similar to that of the apocalyptic traditions of Judaism and Christianity.
Author: Publisher: IOS Press ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 4947
Author: Greg Egan Publisher: Greg Egan ISBN: 192224015X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 391
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Oceanic is a collection of twelve stories, including the Hugo-award-winning “Oceanic”: “Lost Continent” “Dark Integers” “Crystal Nights” “Steve Fever” “Induction” “Singleton” “Oracle” “Border Guards” “Riding the Crocodile” “Glory” “Hot Rock” “Oceanic”
Author: Eric Charles Steinhart Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031177525 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 345
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Atheistic Platonism is an alternative to both theism and nihilistic atheism. It shows how any jobs allegedly done by God are better done by impersonal Platonic objects. Without Platonic objects, atheism degenerates into an illogical nihilism. Atheistic Platonism instead provides reality with foundations that are eternal, necessary, rational, beautiful, and utterly mindless. It argues for a plenitude of mathematical objects, and an infinite plurality of possible universes. It provides mindless rational grounds for objective values, and for objective moral laws for the persons who evolve in universes. It defines a meaningful way of life, which facilitates self-improvement. Atheistic Platonists argue for computational theories of life after death. Atheistic Platonism includes a rich system of spiritual symbols. It values transformational practices and ecstatic experiences. Where atheisms based on materialism fail, atheisms based on Platonism succeed.
Author: Andrew Smith Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers ISBN: 1534422218 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 464
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“This provocative jaunt…dissects society, technology, othering, and what makes humanity human.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An unpredictable, gross, and prescient rumination on modernity, media consumption, and machine-aided communication.” —Booklist (starred review) Told with Andrew Smith’s signature dark humor, Rabbit & Robot tells the story of Cager Messer, a boy who’s stranded on the Tennessee—his father’s lunar-cruise utopia—with insane robots. To help him shake his Woz addiction, Billy and Rowan transport Cager Messer up to the Tennessee, a giant lunar-cruise ship orbiting the moon. Meanwhile, Earth, in the midst of thirty simultaneous wars, burns to ash beneath them. And as the robots on board become increasingly insane and cannibalistic, and the Earth becomes a toxic wasteland, the boys have to wonder if they’ll be stranded alone in space forever. In Rabbit & Robot, Andrew Smith, Printz Honor author of Grasshopper Jungle, makes you laugh, cry, and consider what it really means to be human.
Author: Sharyn November Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0142414387 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 544
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A collection of sixteen science fiction short stories includes contributions by Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, and Scott Westerfeld, and covers such topics as space exploration, corporate politics, and cloning.
Author: Robert M. Geraci Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199379971 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 412
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Millions of users have taken up residence in virtual worlds, and in those worlds they find opportunities to revisit and rewrite their religious lives. Robert M. Geraci argues that virtual worlds and video games have become a locus for the satisfaction of religious needs, providing many users with devoted communities, opportunities for ethical reflection, a meaningful experience of history and human activity, and a sense of transcendence. Using interviews, surveys, and his own first-hand experience within the virtual worlds, Geraci shows how World of Warcraft and Second Life provide participants with the opportunity to rethink what it means to be religious in the contemporary world. Not all participants use virtual worlds for religious purposes, but many online residents use them to rearrange or replace religious practice as designers and users collaborate in the production of a new spiritual marketplace. Using World of Warcraft and Second Life as case studies, this book shows that many residents now use virtual worlds to re-imagine their traditions and work to restore them to "authentic" sanctity, or else replace religious institutions with virtual communities that provide meaning and purpose to human life. For some online residents, virtual worlds are even keys to a post-human future where technology can help us transcend mortal life. Geraci argues that World of Warcraft and Second Life are "virtually sacred" because they do religious work. They often do such work without regard for-and frequently in conflict with-traditional religious institutions and practices; ultimately they participate in our sacred landscape as outsiders, competitors, and collaborators.
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