Philosophy Wire: DNA, friends, hypotheses...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-09-07]: The findings of a research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (of which country? The article does not clarify), show that people share 0.1 percent more DNA with their friends than with perfect strangers. That’s about the same genetic similarity you share with your fourth cousin. [1] But is it that DNA similarities make us be friends with these people? Or that because we are friends we grow to have similar DNA? Pay attention to your assumptions. Because they shape your conclusions...

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Philosophy Wire: Glasses, friends, loneliness...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-05-30]: 

Google glasses to be used for facial recognition. [1]

In the near future we will not recognize our friends.

Google will do that for us.

And if the glasses are broken, we will be left alone...

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Philosophy Wire: Internet is about to hit 2 billion users

Philosophy Wire: 2010-10-19 The Internet is about to hit the mark of 2 billion users. Never in the history of human kind so many people were "connected" and so many people were at the same time alone... How many "friends" do you have in Facebook? How many real friends do you have in real life?

[Greek / Ελληνικά] Το Διαδίκτυο θα φτάσει σύντομα τους 2 δισεκατομμύρια χρήστες. Ποτέ άλλοτε στην ιστορία της ανθρωπότητας δεν ήταν τόσοι πολλοί άνθρωποι "συνδεδεμένοι" και την ίδια στιγμή τόσοι πολλοί άνθρωποι δεν ήταν μόνοι... Πόσους "φίλους" έχετε στο Facebook; Πόσους αληθινούς φίλους έχετε στην αληθινή ζωή;

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