Philosophy Wire: Deep AI vs. Human doctors. A battle long lost…

The 'deep learning' computers in a diagnostic imaging lab routinely defeat their human counterparts in diagnosing heart failure, detecting various cancers and predicting their strength. But nonetheless researchers dismiss any notion that such machines might someday replace pathologists and radiologists. [1] We are soon to have computers as doctors. The wave of progress cannot be stopped. We will become machines. Because this is what we believe we are, for centuries now. There is no argument against using AI to diagnose problems in the path we have chosen to follow. Unless we turn back and discard the whole structure of science as we know it altogether. There is no data. There are no useful theories. There is only man. And his will to live in an inhumane cosmos. Inside a cold doctor’s room, the lights are off. Lifeless computers. Beeps and hums. Killing humans. One diagnosis at a time...

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Philosophy Wire: Finding life… Automatically… The soul of the cosmos…

MIT researchers have used physics principles to improve the performance of a machine-learning system, trained on data from a NASA crowdsourcing project (in which volunteers search telescopic images for evidence of debris disks around stars, which are good indicators of exoplanets) [1] Looking for life in all the wrong places. Life is not where computers see. It is not in the sea. Nor the trees. Life is not even in us. Life is nowhere. Imagine a world full of computers. Discovering debris disks everywhere. It would be a dead world anyway. Until a man came into that world. Looking for debris disks… Look at that flower. So beautiful. So alive. And yet, it was dead a second ago…

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Philosophy Wire: Detecting suicidal thoughts. Lifeless life…

An AI application could help detect suicidal thoughts in individuals – thoughts which can go by undetected by their friends and family. [1] We have become so much isolated from our self that we seek company in the lifeless. A machine will read our mind to see whether we want to stop living. And yet the machine knows nothing about living per se. A machine can never commit suicide. Because it wouldn’t know it is living in the first place. Don’t look at the computer. Look at those people committing suicide. They are the greatest proof that you should not…

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Philosophy Wire: Communicating in a foreign language. Emotion. Decision making. Hating… you.

Communicating in a foreign language takes emotion out of decision-making. [1] Speaking in a language you are not so familiar with, makes you think more on how to formulate the sentences you want to say. And that extra-thinking seems to take away the truly human edge of the decision-making process: emotion. The more we think, the more we become machines. It is something evident to children. You do not need too much thinking to love or hate. And yet, we still believe that thinking more is the solution to everything. We hate ourselves. And we have not even sat down to think why…

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Philosophy Wire: Artificial heart. Death.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-10-21]: Supercomputers “listen” to artificial hearts in order to determine if they have problems [1] We want to save our lives. And we kill ourselves. To become machines. The meaning of life is death. When will we understand that?

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Philosophy Wire: സുപ്രഭാതം. നീ എങ്ങനെയിരിക്കുന്നു?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-09-09]: A guy from New Zealand won the French competition of Scrabble without knowing French! It took him nine weeks to learn all the 2-10 letter words that would be required for him to win the game. [1] We are turning more and more into computers. And the terrible thing is that we enjoy it. After all, winning Scrabble is what we live about, isn’t it? ഞങ്ങൾ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിൽ കൂടുതൽ കൂടുതൽ തിരിയുന്നു. എന്നാൽ ഭയങ്കരമായുള്ളതു ഞങ്ങൾ അത് ആസ്വദിക്കുന്നു എന്നതാണ്. ശേഷം എല്ലാവരും, സ്ക്രാബിൾ ജേതാവായ നാം ജീവിക്കുന്നു എന്തു, അല്ലേ? [via Google Translate] No. Artificial Intelligent does not work. (Chinese room) Because intelligence requires inderstanding. And you will never understand something if all you do is trying to understand it. (science: understand the “how”, religion: living)

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Philosophy Wire: Death. Health. Medicine. Robots. Humans.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-12-01]: Could robots aid in the Ebola fight? The White House will co-host a November workshop exploring the use of robots to help minimize human contact with the fast-spreading virus. [1, 2] The main ingredient of medicine is not a drug. Not a substance. Not a technique. The main ingredient of medicine is Humans. Take that out and you have no disease. No life. Just machines helping other machines. And who cares if machines fail? I mean die...

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Philosophy Wire: Robots, families, stupidity...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-09-05]: A new friendly robot that will be a member of the family. [1] But if this becomes a member, there will be no family... Come for dinner on Sunday. Touch me. Smile. I am not a robot...

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Philosophy Wire: Computers thinking like humans. Humans thinking like computers...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-07-19]:

The first computer to pass the Turing Test, persuading the people with who it talked that it is one of their kind. [1, 2] Computers have started thinking as men, some people might say. Men have started thinking like computers, I say. And it is so sad...

PS. And yes, I find my self repeating my self once more. I have written that a long long time ago. [see here] In the era of Google Knol...

PS2. Read this for some serious objections to the "feat". (which by the way was not even the first - no one must believe the Internet any more) How intelligent is a program programmed to be stupid (a 13-years old who does not know good English and thus avoids the questions)?

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Philosophy Wire: Ants. Humans. Trucks. What are we?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-07-13]: Robotic truck convoys seem to be the future of automated transport. [1] But travelling is not about just moving. Travelling is about dreaming. Travelling is not done with cars. Travelling is done with your soul. And we have stopped travelling. A long time ago...

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Philosophy Wire: MERS, SARS, AIDS, plague...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-06-05]: MERS may be a concern but it’s not SARS, according to an article. [1] MERS, SARS, AIDS… The names of the diseases are becoming more and more meaningless. More and more typical. More and more… lifeless. Much like computer viruses names. Since we have stopped believing we are anything different than machines, who needs the... plague? H1N1 is the best we can have.

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Philosophy Wire: Robot TED talk. Not.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-04-29]: Can a robot give a TED talk? TED hopes so. [1] I just hope noone will ever clap on such a talk. How can "something" talk about something it does not understand? Notice that I do not ask "How can someone clap to someone talking about something he does not understand" - this happens all the time... In the era of deification of materialism and the denial of human, there was only one prerequisite for the introduction of a talking robot: a robot audience. And it seems we have it.

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Philosophy Wire: Vikings, love, robots, cowards...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-03-28]: Primitive Vikings celebrating love. [1] Modern advanced people falling in love with machines. [2, 3] Our path has led us away from our self. It needs courage to acknowledge You. And we live in coward times…

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Philosophy Wire: Models, economy, C. difficile, understanding.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-03-24]: Trying to explain economy with the help of a microbe [1] Our mania to see everything as alien to us is astounding. We imagine of a universe functioning on its own and we try to "explain" it and "understand" it with terms that do not take into account its most major protagonist: Our self!

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Philosophy Wire: Alone in space...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-03-22]:

Trying to handle astronaut depression with… software. [1]
Humans have stopped being humans a long time ago.
Instead of searching for enlightenment inside, we seek help from some… lines of code.
Instead of finding peace with our self, we expect salvation from something that cannot even understand what "peace" is...
Lost in space.
Alone.
Sitting beside a tree.
A man prays. He is not alone...

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Philosophy Wire: Wombs, IVF, meta-humans.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-02-20]: "Recycled" wombs could nurture child and grandchild. [1] A Swedish surgeon who successfully transplanted wombs into nine women is now helping some of them get pregnant via IVF. There was a time when people had babies easily. Naturally. Now they must have money and technology to do it. Having babies will be the priviledge of the few and rich. A new era has dawn. The era of meta-humans... And as the name suggests, it will anything but human.

> Check out the other related to dehumanization article at the Harmonia Philosophica Wordpress portal! <

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Philosophy Wire: Babies, adults and the journey towards objects.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-02-19]: Researchers found that babies spent a whopping quarter of their time in the presence of a face. In contrast, adults are exposed to real faces only about 7 or 8 percent of their time (T.V., Facebook and billboard faces didn’t count), researchers claim after an experiment where a happy face camera was affixed to a headband for tiny little babies. [1] From focusing on persons to focusing on objects. From humans to machines. The history of philosophy. Through the eyes of a baby...

Related article (garbage): Brain. Babies. Adults. Plateus...

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Philosophy Wire: Transhumanism. Not Humanism!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-01-31]: Modern thinking calls for new ideas. Transhumanism (metanthropism/ μετανθρωπισμός, with H+ as its symbol - peculiarly similar to the A+ of modern atheists...) is the way forward according to many! Creating a better human being via genetics! [1, 2] Yes, you are right! It DOES resemble what some "not so anthropistic" regimes thought some (60) years ago... The name says it all: Transhumanism! NOT "humanism"!

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Does medicine actually help? [Cure rates and Philosophy analysis of mainstream and alternative medicine]

What would you think about a new pill that treats Hepatitis C ? [1]

What would you think about a new pill that treats Hepatitis C and costs $1,000 ?

What would you think about a new pill that SAYS it treats Hepatitis C and costs $1,000 ?

What would you think of you gave $1,000 dollars PER PILL and you had a 50% chance of getting cured from Hepatetis C ? [2]

Medicine does good (we will analyze below how much good). But it is also prone to lying. And not telling the whole truth is equivalent to lying. Most of the times when a new super-expensive drug is promoted in the market (what a word to use for human souls...), the most important element of information is buried somewhere deep inside tones of celebrating comments, that most of the times goes unnoticed.

What would you think of a survival rate of 54%? [3]

What would you think of a possibility of 62.7% to get sick again? [4]

What would you think of a cure that works on SOME patients? [5]

What would you think of a vaccine that could make you SICKER? [6]

What would you think if I told you that those who get vaccinated are the starting points of new disease epidemics outbreaks? [7]

What would you think if I told you that doctors choose to give more medicines even to people who are NOT ill? [8]

Modern medicine is now part of the system. It does not care for life, as much as it cares for money. It is really amazing that even though alternative medicine can have the same or even better cure percentages (see 9, 10) the medical society is very reluctant on even discussing its usefulness. As far as the modern doctors are concerned, human is just a machine with can be "fixed".

But how can medicine promote life if it thinks that way? It is really amazing that we value so much life, without even knowing what death is. Actually without even knowing what life is! [11] We need more philosophy! [Harmonia Philosophica Main Thesis] Most people prefer health from illness, life from death. But when was the last time the majority found out the answer to any great philosophical question? Shestov asks cleverly...

The most important thing we must keep in mind is that: Medicine DOES NOT SAVE ANYONE! We all die eventually. Life is a contagious disease, with 100% mortality rate! We cannot escape the inevitable. What we seek, is better life conditions! [12] And to that, modern western medicine has little to offer. Maybe that is why western doctors choose to do NOTHING when they are diagnosed with terminal illnesses. [13]

As Rilke said and as Harmonia Philosophica also says, "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things"!

Search for your thorns...

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Philosophy Wire: Photo from space, humans lost...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-12-07]: A fascinating picture of super typhoon Haiyan from space. [1] Technology is fascinating, isn't that right Mr. Heidegger? Technology works, isn't that right Mr. Heidegger? But this is exactly what is terrible: that ir works (!) (sic) [Spieger last interview] What you don't see in the photograph is the important one. Human is lost. We have lost our contact with the earth...

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