Thursday, November 10, 2016

Philosophy Wire: Robots with senses. Illiterate humans.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-11-10]: Smart threads can be woven into pressure-sensitive electronic skin for robots or medical prosthetics. [1] We still refuse to learn. Technology is not enough for progress. Technology is irrelevant to education or knowledge. We spent thousands of year to understand that our senses are not enough for us to understand the cosmos. And yet we want to create robots with senses. Stupid children. Out of stupid parents. The new robots will be better than us in sensing the world. And yet the cosmos will be slightly more insensitive…

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