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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate studying Rhetoric at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. He lives in downtown Washington, DC.
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Physicist Lawrence Krauss: Science Can Dissolve Metaphysics
Posted on January 19, 2012 | 1 CommentI’m paraphrasing, but not much. There seem to be at least three distinct ways scientific answers can be brought to... -
What Can Experiments Tell Us About Heidegger’s Being-Toward-Death Speculation?
Posted on July 19, 2011 | 2 CommentsThere’s an early Philosophy Bites episode with Anthony Kenny in which he talks about the degree to which contemporary philosophers... -
Movement In Uncanny Valley “Lights Up Brain Like Christmas Tree”
Posted on July 19, 2011 | No CommentsI’m not sure how this maps on to my favorite uncanny valley study of all time… Monkeys are freaked out... -
Linguists Troubled By Conceit Of Ahistorical, Atheoretical Number Crunching
Posted on October 18, 2007 | No CommentsPassed on without comment from academic uberblog Language Log: I’ve been critical of Fitch’s article, so I should emphasize one... -
Second Life Brain-Computer Interfaces And The Fermi Paradox [Video]
Posted on October 13, 2007 | No CommentsThe Milky Way – a relatively small corner of an unfathomably large universe – is teeming with billions and billions... -
Engineer Builds Self-Aware Robots That Learn And Self-Replicate. Umm… What? [Video]
Posted on October 13, 2007 | No CommentsYou know, we’ve seen more than a few movies that begin this way. And they always end badly. Always. Here’s... -
Anger Helps You Think
Posted on October 13, 2007 | 1 CommentWe were going to title this post Redemption!, but that seemed too exuberant. And we’re trying to keep things low-key,... -
Neural Nets See Things The Way We Do, Vulnerable To Basic Optical Illusion
Posted on October 4, 2007 | No CommentsWe’ve been talking a little bit about the degree to which AI will have to be embodied if it’s ever... -
Pentadic Ratios In The Rhetoric Of Addiction
Posted on September 12, 2007 | No CommentsThe Burkean pentad has a bad reputation for lending itself to cookie-cutter “this is the agent, this is the scene,... -
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,...
