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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication and a principal at LynxDC, a Washington, DC strategic communication firm. His home on the Internet is here.
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A Peircean Checklist For Conscious Artificial Intelligence
Posted on September 11, 2007 | 1 CommentAnti-cognitivst curmudgeon David Gelernter has a sustained critique of digital AI in Technology Review: I believe it is hugely unlikely, though not impossible, that a conscious mind will ever be built out of software. Even if it could be, the... -
Bacteria Seem To Be Doing A Lot Of Thinking These Days
Posted on August 27, 2007 | No CommentsPhysics is sometimes taken as the “hard problem” for rhetoric of science – if you can find rhetoric in physics, which is ostensibly the least rhetorical of the sciences, then you can find it in the other sciences too. In... -
Pre-Darwinian Empiricism Read Through Peirce
Posted on August 27, 2007 | 2 CommentsOn one hand, we’re always nervous about the “science doesn’t work the way scientists think it works” narrative – it sounds too much like a setup for the inevitable “also, science is just another narrative” punchline, and is kind of... -
Particle Physicists Do It Transparently Through The Rumor Mill (Plus: Promote NCA Open Bar Transparency!)
Posted on August 23, 2007 | No CommentsJim Brown has a little blurb up over at The Blogora about a new Rhetoric and Composition Job Wiki. It’s MLA-centric instead of NCA-centric, but the idea is certainly right – give people a place to post where their schools...
