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Аноним27 августа 2018 г.До сравнительно недавних времен люди винили в болезнях дурной воздух, злых демонов и гневающихся богов и не подозревали о существовании бактерий и вирусов. Они охотно верили в ангелов и фей, но не могли представить себе, что в крошечной блохе или в капельке воды помещается целая армия хищников-убийц.
2197- Аноним27 августа 2018 г.
В 2010 году голод и плохое питание вместе убили один миллион человек, а ожирение – три миллиона.
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Аноним24 августа 2018 г.В XXI веке самое ценное, что у нас, людей, есть, — это наши персональные данные. А мы отдаем их техногигантам в обмен на услуги электронной почты и забавные видео с котиками.
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Аноним5 апреля 2018 г.In the twenty-first century three practical developments might make this belief obsolete:
- Humans will lose their economic and military usefulness, hence the economic and political system will stop attaching much value to them.
- The system will continue to find value in humans collectively, but not in unique individuals.
- The system will still find value in some unique individuals, but these will constitute a new elite of upgraded superhumans rather than the mass of the population.
2440- Аноним24 марта 2018 г.Читать далее
So far, we have no good answer to this problem. Already thousands of years ago philosophers realised that there is no way to prove conclusively that anyone other than oneself has a mind. Indeed, even in the case of other humans, we just assume they have consciousness – we cannot know that for certain. Perhaps I am the only being in the entire universe who feels anything, and all other humans and animals are just mindless robots? Perhaps I am dreaming, and everyone I meet is just a character in my dream? Perhaps I am trapped inside a virtual world, and all the beings I see are merely simulations?
2402 - Аноним24 марта 2018 г.Читать далее
Finally, some scientists concede that consciousness is real and may actually have great moral and political value, but that it fulfils no biological function whatsoever. Consciousness is the biologically useless by-product of certain brain processes. Jet engines roar loudly, but the noise doesn’t propel the aeroplane forward. Humans don’t need carbon dioxide, but each and every breath fills the air with more of the stuff. Similarly, consciousness may be a kind of mental pollution produced by the firing of complex neural networks. It doesn’t do anything. It is just there. If this is true, it implies that all the pain and pleasure experienced by billions of creatures for millions of years is just mental pollution. This is certainly a thought worth thinking, even if it isn’t true. But it is quite amazing to realise that as of 2016, this is the best theory of consciousness that contemporary science has to offer us.
2379 - Аноним24 марта 2018 г.
The car does all that without any problem – but without any consciousness either. The autonomous car isn’t special. Many other computer programs make allowances for their own actions, yet none of them has developed consciousness, and none feels or desires anything.6
2367 - Аноним24 марта 2018 г.
In contrast, when we privilege human children over piglets, we want to believe that this reflects something deeper than the ecological balance of power. We want to believe that human lives really are superior in some fundamental way. We Sapiens love telling ourselves that we enjoy some magical quality that not only accounts for our immense power, but also gives moral justification for our privileged status. What is this unique human spark?
2344 - Аноним19 марта 2018 г.
Most readers probably know how it feels when you miss lunch, when you fast on some religious holiday, or when you live for a few days on vegetable shakes as part of a new wonder diet. But how does it feel when you haven’t eaten for days on end and you have no clue where to get the next morsel of food? Most people today have never experienced this excruciating torment. Our ancestors, alas, knew it only too well.
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Аноним22 октября 2025 г.Сейчас все люди затронуты современностью и живут в единой глобальной деревне. Хотя калахарские собиратели менее современны, чем гарвардские студенты, они не «капсулы времени» из нашего далекого прошлого. Они тоже подверглись влиянию христианских миссионеров, европейских торговцев, состоятельных экотуристов и любопытных ученых (известная шутка: типичное племя охотников-собирателей в пустыне Калахари состоит из двадцати охотников, двадцати собирателей и пятидесяти антропологов).
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