THE ARTIFICIALIZATION OF MIND AND WORLD

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to renewed ambitions of developing artificial general intelligence. Alongside this has been a resurgence in the development of virtual and augmented reality (V/AR) technologies, which are viewed as “disruptive” technologies and the computing platforms of the future. V/AR effectively bring the digital world of machines, robots, and artificial agents to our senses while entailing the transposition of human activity and presence into the digital world of artificial agents and machine forms of intelligence. The intersection of humans and machines in this shared space brings humans and machines into ontological continuity as informational entities in a totalizing informational environment, which subsumes both cyber and physical space in an artificially constructed virtual world. The reconstruction of mind (through AI) and world (through V/AR) thus has significant epistemological, ontological, and anthropological implications, which constitute the underlying features in the artificialization of mind and world.     

人工腰椎间盘置换预示了腰椎融合的终结？

腰椎间盘退变性疾患的治疗方法主要是病变椎间盘的单纯切除和腰椎融合。而人工腰椎间盘置换的出现预示了脊柱外科一个新的时代的到来。简要介绍SB charité人工腰椎间盘置换技术,并分析了其早期的临床效果及可能出现的一些并发症,总结了目前人工腰椎间盘的应用所遇到的一些问题。客观的评价人工腰椎间置换技术,为临床实践和进一步研究提供依据。     

"人造美女"的生命伦理学思考

"人造美女"是一个纯粹的市场炒作的概念,其背后隐匿着深刻的生命伦理难题,并直接面对现实的医学伦理学问题.其中,生命价值、技术对生命干涉限度、美容与健康的冲突、医疗商业化等生命伦理学难题格外突出,而医疗伤害、技术滥用等是更为现实的医学伦理学问题.     

"人造美女"热的冷思考

"人造美女"是对美的本质的亵渎,是对女性价值全面性的否定,同时也是对医学人道主义和医学伦理基本原则的全面践踏.作为一名医务工作者,应该避免经济利益的驱动,全心全意地践行医德誓言,把治疗伤疾、维护人们的身心健康作为自己的神圣信条和基本准则.     

气道管理与呼吸机相关性肺炎防治策略

气道管理是机械通气过程中的关键技术,人工气道管理各个环节的处理,关系到机械通气的顺利进行,对呼吸机相关性肺炎(VAP)有不同程度的直接或间接的影响。气道管理的策略应该注重局部和整体的关系,在全身调整的基础上细致地管理气道的各个环节,体现气道管理的艺术。本文结合最新的临床研究证据阐明气道管理与VAP防治的策略。     

REVEREND ROBOT: AUTOMATION AND CLERGY

Digital technology, including artificial intelligence, is having a dramatic impact on the professions of medicine, law, journalism, finance, and others. Some suggest that clergy will also be affected. We describe recent progress in designing artificially intelligent systems, suggesting that this is possible, perhaps even likely. We investigate ways in which technology currently is affecting ministry and outline some plausible scenarios in which digital systems could supplement or supplant clergy in some areas, specifically preaching and pastoral care. We also raise some theological issues raised by the use of digital systems in ministry.     

THE ATHENIAN ALTAR AND THE AMAZONIAN CHATBOT: A PAULINE READING OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APOCALYPTIC ENDS

This article explores questions about chatbots in particular and artificial intelligence (AI) in general from a Pauline, that is, a Christian theological perspective. It does so in a way that focuses on a particular scene in the New Testament: Paul in the Athenian Areopagus, considering an altar to an “unknown God,” quoting Greek poets and philosophers, and sharing curious theology as he dialogues with Stoic and Epicurean thinkers (Acts 17:16–34). By examining the sociohistorical nuances of this scene and their philosophical and theological implications, this article shows how the altar Paul considers philosophically and theologically becomes the focal point for an important dialogue about apocalyptic ends, or ideas about who we are, where we are going, and who or what is responsible for that who‐ness and where‐ness. In turn, this can teach us how to ask practical questions, which can uncover the unsuspected apocalyptic ends represented by, or even contained within, common technological objects such as chatbots.     

The Image of God as Techno Sapiens

Suppose there comes a day when Homo sapiens has evolved into or been overtaken by techno sapiens. Will it then still make sense to speak of human beings as created in the image of God? What is the relevance of asking such a question today? I offer a sketch of the present state of development and discussion in artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial life (AL) and discuss some implications for the human condition. Taking into account both reality and fiction in AI and AL, I hold that, regardless of the degree of realization, issues related to technological evolution inform the cultural agenda—at least the European–American one. I comment on antireductionist arguments and on arguments from philosophy and (history of) culture. I argue in favor of a consonance between neurotechnology and the Christian gospel in terms of realizing the marks of messianic life. However, issues of justice, reason versus nature, and perfection and finitude versus imperfection and immortality call for further illumination. Even though no principal opposition seems to exist between technological evolution and possible interpretations of the concept of the image of God (imago dei), a number of significant dissimilarities need to be addressed, such as the differences between technical improvement and forgiveness or transformation and between immortality and resurrection. The role of irregularity, disturbance, and error for creative processes in nature and culture is an exciting topic in science and technology as well as in theology.     

人工语法学习模型述评

述评了近年来影响较大的四个人工语法学习模型——THIYOS分类器系统、竞争组块模型、范例模型和联系者模型。它们都认为,人工语法学习所获得的知识中,一部分以规则、组块、总体类似性以及激活模式等形式到达意识层面,另一部分则残存在力量模式中,确定什么内容适合到达意识层面;后者即为内隐知识。这四种模型各抒己见,各有特点,并都为内隐学习的机理提供了重要依据。