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These two "hard" questions about consciousness--the extraness question and the water-into-wine question--don't depend on artificial intelligence. They could occur (and have occurred) to people who simply take the mind-as-machine idea seriously and ponder its implications. But the actual construction of a robot like Cog, or of a pandemonium machine, makes the hard questions more vivid. Materialist dismissals of the mind-body problem may seem forceful on paper, but, says McGinn, "you start to see the limits of a concept once it gets realized." With AI, the tenets of strict materialism are being realized...
...first-ever College-wide elections of the council's president and vice president will occur next month. Because HSF was just formed, the group has not made any decisions about the possibility of endorsing candidates or allowing non-council members who will be running to join, said council member Elizabeth A. Haynes...
...scoping doesn't just occur at unofficial Harvard hang-outs--indeed, Harvard's architecture, old and new, often dictates preludes to sexual encounters. The recent switch from the Union to Annenberg Hall is cited as a good example of this...
Another simple but often overlooked safety precaution is to keep suite doors locked at all times. This is the one sure way to keep criminals from breaking in and stealing valuables. Furthermore, most thefts which happen in the houses probably occur when fellow students take advantage of unlocked doors...
Flour and other grain products are now required to be fortified with folic acid, a nutrient that reduces the risk of neural-tube birth defects like spina bifida. About 2,500 infants are born each year with such defects, which occur in the fetus before most women know they are pregnant...