The following are notes ahead of a panel discussion this afternoon, where we will discuss the need for a legal…
The free will to make slightly worse choices ( Man / Machine XI)
In his chapter on intelectronics, his word for what most closely resembles artificial intelligence, Stanislaw Lem suggests an insidious way…
Stanislaw Lem, Herbert Simon and artificial intelligence as broad social technology project (Man / Machine X)
Why do we develop artificial intelligence? Is it merely because of an almost faustian curiosity? Is it because of an…
Law, technology and time (Law and Time I)
I just got a copy of the latest Scandinavian Studies of Law, no. 65. I contributed a small piece on…
A small note on cost and benefit
I have picked up Cass Sunstein’s latest book on cost / benefit trade offs, and am enjoying it. But it…
Memory, Ricoeur, History, Identity, Privacy and Forgetting (Identity and Privacy II)
In the literature on memory it is almost mandatory to cite the curious case of the man who who after…
The Narrated Self (Identity and Privacy I)
The discussions and debates about privacy are key to trust in the information society. Yet, the our understanding of the…
Sad songs (Notes on Culture I)
A cursory examination of the landscape of sad songs suggest that they fall into a number of categories: break up…
Artificial selves and artificial moods (Man / Machine IX)
Philosopher Galen Strawson challenges the idea that we have a cohesive, narrative self that lives in a structurally robust setting,…
My dying machine (Man / Machine VIII)
Our view of death is probably key to exploring our view of the relationship between man and machine. Is death…
Consciousness as – mistake? (Man / Machine VII)
In the remarkable work A Conspiracy against Humanity, horror writer Thomas Ligotti argues that consciousness is a curse that captures…
Games and knowledge (The Structure of Human Knowledge as Game II)
Why are games consisting of knowledge tests so popular? In 2004 it was calculated that Trivial Pursuit had sold around…