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7 April 2009

“What kind of doctors will they be, these students who have never experienced human dissection?”

contemplates the effect of a plan to stop medical students dissecting human cadavers

“The Turing test still has not been passed, though there is apparently a human being somewhere who failed it”

Susan Greenfield in Wired UK, on attempts to build a conscious machine

“Guy walks into a shrink’s office. Says he’s gay and wants to be straight. Shrink says, ‘OK, I’ll help.’ Don’t wait for the punch line. There isn’t one, because this isn’t a joke”

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