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erraticwisdom: Conscious Conversation: Philosophy
http://erraticwisdom.com/2010/10/08/conscious-conversation-philosophy
Join a bunch of others, grab the feed today. This interview is part of a series exploring what different people think about consciousness. The plan is to pose the same basic question to people of different backgrounds (philosophers, religious figures, scientists, politicians, down to my sister), and learn how this affects their view of the world and themselves. Dr Zaidel: Behavioral Science. Daniel Black, author of Erectlocution. Hi, Thame,. Oct 9, 10:50 AM #. Oct 28, 09:34 PM #. The only way one can tru...
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erraticwisdom: The Ethics of Teaching Hospitals
http://erraticwisdom.com/2013/10/02/the-ethics-of-teaching-hospitals
Join a bunch of others, grab the feed today. I can’t imagine what the patient was thinking. Seeing my trembling hands approaching the lacerations on his face with a sharp needle. I tried to reassure him that I knew what I was doing, but the pair of residents who stood behind me discredited that notion. The procedure took twice as long as a more experienced practitioner, but the end result was in my perhaps biased opinion comparable. Yes sir, I’ve done this before. Beneficence: The practitioner must act t...
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erraticwisdom: The Ethics of AI: Part Two
http://erraticwisdom.com/2010/04/18/the-ethics-of-ai-part-two
Join a bunch of others, grab the feed today. Is it ethical to allow humanity to continue, or to replace our species with machines? This is getting tougher. Why does humanity deserve to exist? The recorded history of the experiences of. Is the development of an unsure species at breakneck speed. In an environment more accustomed to the snail-like pace of biological evolution,. With our cultural evolution. Appeared on stage with all the delicacy of a three year-old child. Skirts around the fact that this w...
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erraticwisdom: The Ethics of AI: Part Three
http://erraticwisdom.com/2010/06/04/the-ethics-of-ai-part-three
Join a bunch of others, grab the feed today. Is it ethical (or possible) to constrain intelligent life? This part of the argument involves what we think it means to be human, and whether creating and adjusting those criteria in an AI affects what they are capable of. Is of critical importance because it is this variety of conditions and decisions that create all of us, the paradigm-shifting geniuses, mass murderers, and utterly mundane. To act morally. By removing whatever evolutionary propensities f...
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erraticwisdom: Why Medical School Should Be Free
http://erraticwisdom.com/2012/07/02/why-medical-school-should-be-free
Join a bunch of others, grab the feed today. There’s a lot of really great doctors out there, but unfortunately, there’s also some bad ones. That’s a problem we don’t need to have, and I think it’s caused by some problems with the rules about becoming a doctor. More because of the relative difficulty and sacrificed profitability during the long training period. However, the real value of being a doctor is in the profession itself. Simply put, those who don’t find that sufficient. Being smart isn’t the mo...
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Join a bunch of others, grab the feed today. The report from the field was not promising by any stretch, extensive trauma, and perhaps most importantly unknown downtime (referencing the period where the patient received no basic care like CPR. The patient remained pulseless en route, we were all aware of the markedly poor prognosis. Patients have a right to have critical procedures performed by experienced providers. The importance of these experiences for trainees is without question. Patients deser...
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erraticwisdom: Progress Report
http://erraticwisdom.com/2012/07/15/progress-report
Join a bunch of others, grab the feed today. Two years down, I’m still going. The next two years are my clinical rotations, the actual hands-on training. It’s a scary prospect, responsibilities and such; but it’s equally exciting, after all, this is what I came here for. I’ll let you know how it goes since I actually have no idea what it’ll be like. A representation of the process from presentation to treatment. The person comes in with a problem, a “chief complaint”. Of course, there’s a lot more to the...
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erraticwisdom: Conscious Conversation: Behavioral Science
http://erraticwisdom.com/2013/09/03/conscious-conversation-behavior-science
Join a bunch of others, grab the feed today. This interview is part of a series exploring what different people think about consciousness. The plan is to pose the same basic question to people of different backgrounds (philosophers, religious figures, scientists, politicians, down to my sister), and learn how this affects their view of the world and themselves. Dr Zaidel: Behavioral Science. Dr Eran Zaidel is a professor of Behavioral Neuroscience and faculty member at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA.
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erraticwisdom: The Stuff in Between
http://erraticwisdom.com/2010/08/01/stuff-in-between
Join a bunch of others, grab the feed today. I’m actually almost normal when not agonizing over robot production details, and quite a bit has happened since I last wrote an update. First, I’ve finally graduated. I had a bit of a mid-undergraduate crisis and dropped my biology major in favor of a more practical degree in philosophy. With my sister’s help, however, I was able to remember that I. The view from my balcony. School of Medicine. I’ve got a long road ahead, but I’ll make it. 25 miles up to Nabi ...
