CCSI

For the past couple of years, I’ve been referring to that little guy in Men In Black whenever I have to debunk the homunculus theory of the mind (usually on the first day of my ‘Minds and Machines’ course). So I decided to actually bring the video with me to class:
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While looking for something totally unrelated to AI, I came across this article on asharq alawsat - ‘the Leading Arabic Daily English edition’.
Can a Machine Issue Islamic Fatwas?
There isn’t enough detail in the article to glean anything specific about the programming of the Electronic Mufti, but it does raise some interesting issues in metaethics.

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