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Digital Twins, Barista Robots, and AI for the office – Professor Jörn Mehnen
Explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the workplace in this engaging lecture on "Digital Twins, Barista Robots, and AI for the Office." From virtual replicas that optimize office systems to robotic baristas serving your morning coffee, and AI tools transforming productivity, this talk delves into the practical and surprising ways automation and intelligence are being integrated into everyday work environments. The event description above was generated by ChatGPT based on the title (and a short prompt of course). Did you…
Find out more »The Humanist Case for Assisted Dying
In June, the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill passed its first vote at Holyrood. For Humanist Society Scotland, this represents a major milestone on a decades-long journey. Humanism as an ethical position supports secularism, human rights and bodily autonomy. This encompasses the right for terminally ill people to end their lives on their own terms, free from pain, indignity, and trauma. Joe Higgins, Policy and Campaigns Officer at HSS, will discuss the humanist approach to assisted dying,…
Find out more »How serious is the zombie challenge to free will?
Whether free will is compatible with the scientific worldview, according to which the world is just driven by blind deterministic causes is a fascinating question about which I will have little to say. This is because my brief is to talk about what neuroscience can tell us about free will and despite contrary claims, I don’t think that modern neuroscience has very important things to say on this question. We will quickly explore why this is but more importantly we…
Find out more »Knowledge machine or cloak of (in)visibility? Addressing the -ism in the room
Just follow the science (it’s not rocket science!) because by now we have it down to a science and that’s scientific because we got it from the scientists who are - after all - the experts we should be deferring to when it comes to the science. What does this barrage of honorifics have to do with science? Beyond playing dress up and using almost every variation of the s-word to heap generic, epistemic praise - precious little. Drawing on…
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