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Urban people’s preferences for life-sustaining treatment or artificial nutrition and hydration in advance decisions
BackgroundThe Patient Right to Autonomy Act (PRAA), implemented in Taiwan in 2019, enables the creation of advance decisions (AD) through advance...
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For a contextualist and content-related understanding of the difference between human and artificial intelligence
The development of artificial intelligence necessarily implies the anthropological question of the difference between human and artificial...
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Artificial Wombs, Surplus Embryos, and Parent-Friendly IVF
There has been considerable discussion about the impact artificial womb technology may have on debates in reproductive ethics. Much of it has focused...
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Affective Artificial Agents as sui generis Affective Artifacts
AI-based technologies are increasingly pervasive in a number of contexts. Our affective and emotional life makes no exception. In this article, we...
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Understanding Sophia? On human interaction with artificial agents
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) create an increasing similarity between the performance of AI systems or AI-based robots and human...
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Lithbea, a New Domain Outside the Tree of Life
At this time when the development of synthetic biology and artificial intelligence are changing the world around us, philosophers and scientists,...
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Aristotle on Artificial Products
In the contemporary discussion of artifacts, philosophers grapple with what is known as the continuum problem – the problem of drawing a clear...
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Artificial Intelligence
In various fields related to our daily lives, such as transportation, finance, logistics, corporate management, medical care, nursing care, and...
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Nativism and empiricism in artificial intelligence
Historically, the dispute between empiricists and nativists in philosophy and cognitive science has concerned human and animal minds (Margolis and...
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On quantum computing for artificial superintelligence
Artificial intelligence algorithms, fueled by continuous technological development and increased computing power, have proven effective across a...
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The Second Age of Artificial Intelligence
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the impact, characteristics and challenges underlying the advent of the Second Age of Artificial Intelligence....
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Between the Authentic and the Artificial: A Thought Experiment on Kokoro
In contrasting a hypothetical robot’s kokoro (heart-mind) with human kokoro, Ōmori Shōzo, in his essay “Objection by a Robot (Robot no Moushibun),”...
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Intention reconsideration in artificial agents: a structured account
An important module in the Belief-Desire-Intention architecture for artificial agents (which builds on Michael Bratman’s work in the philosophy of...
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Artificial consciousness: a perspective from the free energy principle
Does the assumption of a weak form of computational functionalism, according to which the right form of neural computation is sufficient for...
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Meaning in Life in AI Ethics—Some Trends and Perspectives
In this paper, we discuss the relation between recent philosophical discussions about meaning in life (from authors like Susan Wolf, Thaddeus Metz,...
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Its Impact on Artificial Intelligence and Medicine in Develo** Countries
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent...
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Introducing a four-fold way to conceptualize artificial agency
Recent developments in AI-research suggest that an AI-driven science might not be that far off. The research of for Melnikov et al. (2018) and that...
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Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership
In this editorial essay, we argue that Generative Artificial Intelligence programs (GenAI) draw on what we term a “hypercommons”, involving...
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Does artificial intelligence exhibit basic fundamental subjectivity? A neurophilosophical argument
Does artificial intelligence (AI) exhibit consciousness or self? While this question is hotly debated, here we take a slightly different stance by...
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Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life
This paper examines the tension between creative destruction—an inherent feature of capitalist economies—and the ideal of autonomy. Creative...