Kevin Warwick
United Kingdom scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
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There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.
Shouldn’t I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn’t I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not.
In pornography philosophers are called virgin voyeurs. They like to watch and criticize as an expert, but have never even had sex themselves.
I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.
When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, due to aging, human memory can exhibit very poor short term recall.
I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a ‘philosopher’ simply do not have a day job to go to.
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