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3 hours ago · The cause may be hidden in the difference between existential weights of the SGOs and phenomena of living consciousness. The existential weight of an entity is a person’s belief in the significance of this entity for life and practice. The more noticeable and significant for a person's life the entity is, the greater the entity’s ...
1 day ago · The problems of consciousness, Chalmers argues, are of two kinds: the easy problems and the hard problem.. Easy problems. The easy problems are amenable to reductive inquiry. They are a logical consequence of lower-level facts about the world, similar to how a clock's ability to tell time is a logical consequence of its clockwork and structure, or a hurricane a logical consequence of the ...
3 hours ago · Preparing students to handle fraught conversations about ethics and values is a must. 3. Treat sustainability as a ‘minor’ for all students. There is little consistency in how corporations treat sustainability, with some viewing it as risk management, others as innovation, others as marketing or compliance. Relatedly, many sustainability ...
1 day ago · Philosopher Nick Bostrom said that there is a possible trade-off, namely that some existential risks might be mitigated by the establishment of a powerful and permanent world government, and in turn the establishment of such a government could enhance the existential risks which are associated with the rule of a permanent dictatorship.
