Philosophy Wire: Psychopath? Is the computer says so…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-03-14]: Computers will decide if a person is a psychopath or not [source: BBC News]. This is it: since humans were not able to investigate the human soul and after we “decided” that we do not even have one (call me… Materialism), we now pass over the decision to the cold computers. Logical…

 

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