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Agnosticism about artificial consciousness

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Could an AI have conscious experiences? Answers to this question should be based not on intuition, dogma or speculation but on solid scientific evidence. However, I argue such evidence is hard to come by and that the only justifiable stance is agnosticism.
Tom McClelland
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes and experiences of lifestyle healthcare professionals in the care of metabolic and bariatric surgery patients in the Netherlands. [PDF]

Obes Pillars
Garcia FK, Mulder BC, Wagemakers A, Hazebroek EJ, Verkooijen KT.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

Journal of American History, 2020
openaire   +1 more source

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Retrieval Augmented Generation for Health Care by Fine-Tuning Clinical Embedding Models: Development and Evaluation Study.

J Med Internet Res
Arzideh K, Schäfer H, Idrissi-Yaghir A, Schmidt CS, Eryilmaz B, Bahn M, Turki AT, Pollok OB, Hartmann EM, Winnekens P, Borys K, Haubold J, Nensa F, Hosch R.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

Macroplastic accumulation across different surface covers, a case study of two South African rivers. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mutshekwa T, Mlambo MC, Mbadla L, Mkhencele S, Mofu L, Osoh MO, Motitsoe SN.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
wiley   +1 more source