Documents tagged "Preface"
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021247.txt
This document discusses how invisible forces like gravity and social connection affect humans. It highlights the importance of scientific investigation into these areas to better understand human behavior and biology. The authors also propose a revised religious humanism that integrates science with religious beliefs, improving views on nature and health within leading world religions.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017088.txt
The document is a biography of an individual's life, focusing on their upbringing in Brooklyn, their education at Yale, and their subsequent academic career. The author discusses the evolution of free speech rights from the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks and the changing societal attitudes towards pornography. Additionally, they explore criminal justice issues such as capital punishment and rape. They also examine the impact of race and equal rights on society. The document is a comprehensive look at the author's life, education, and contributions to legal scholarship.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012899.txt
This document is a book written by Ben Goertzel about Engineering General Intelligence. In it, he outlines a practical approach to creating software systems with general intelligence at the human level and beyond. The focus of the first part of the book is on critical conceptual issues related to the nature of intelligence and mind. It also sketches the broad outlines of a novel, integrative architecture for Artificial General Intelligence called CogPrime, and describes an approach for giving an AGI system appropriate experience so that it can develop its own smarts, creativity and wisdom through its own experience. The book dedicates to Goertzel's grandfather who was also a deep thinker and excellent scientist.