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Michael Liccione

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  • Students: Midterms, Low Grades Infringe on Our Activism

    Students: Midterms, Low Grades Infringe on Our Activism0

    The Week reports that more than 1,300 “students at Oberlin College are asking the school to put academics on the back burner so they can better turn their attention to activism.”  Particularly offensive to students are midterms essays (they’d prefer a conversation with their professor, they say) and grades below a C.  Now, one might

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  • Privacy is Disappearing

    Privacy is Disappearing0

    According to IVPM, which calls itself “the world’s leading video surveillance information source,” Americans “vastly underestimate” how often their movements are recorded on closed-circuit television (CCTV): “The majority of 1,000 respondents to this Google Consumer Survey assumed they were recorded on CCTV camera 4 times or less per day.” But the real number is about ten times

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  • Magazine Declares the Death of Free Will

    Magazine Declares the Death of Free Will0

    Does free will exist? Even if it does not, we’re better off believing it does. So argues philosopher, writer, and erstwhile diplomat Stephen Cave, in the June issue of The Atlantic. But does that even make sense? That depends on how one defines ‘free will’—a question which Cave addresses only obliquely, and to which I

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  • Why We Should Stop Referring to the Brain as a Computer

    Why We Should Stop Referring to the Brain as a Computer0

    If you study the long history of science, it’s striking how the thought of each age is dominated by some-or-other ruling metaphor that eventually gives way to another. That’s especially true when it comes to explaining human intelligence. (You can learn how in this book.) Ever since computer technology took off after World War II, our ruling metaphor for the human brain is

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