Philosophy Wire: Behavioral waves…

The presence of just a few autonomous vehicles can eliminate the stop-and-go driving of the human drivers in traffic, along with the accident risk and fuel inefficiency it causes, according to new research. The finding indicates that self-driving cars and related technology may be even closer to revolutionizing traffic control than previously thought. [1] Behavior propagates like a wave. It only takes a few autonomous cars to fix traffic. It only takes a few idiots to destroy mankind. The Cataclysm is not the exception, it is the rule. Over and over again, stupidity prevails. We were humans. We will be machines. Soon, as we did many times in the past, we will destroy our selves. The streets will be full of autonomous cars. There will be no accidents. Everything will be perfect. Everything will be dead…

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Philosophy Wire: Children and social interaction. Being still a child. Refusing to accept it.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-08-30]: While sharing toys and fighting with each other, kindergarten children helped researchers understand the patterns and qualities of interactions in social groups. The results were much more complex than the scientists originally predicted. [1] How arrogant we are. We believe we are all too grown up. We believe we are too different from children. But every one of us was a child once. And is carrying what he thought and learnt when he was still laughing and crying in his mother’s lap. Every one of us is still a child. Refusing to accept that he is. We are not complex. We were complex as children. See the cosmos selfishly and you will see how you have not grown at all. You are the same stubborn child you once were…

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