Bioethics Otherwise, or, How to Live with Machines, Humans, and Other Animals1

Totally Looks Like - How Humans Compare, Compared to Machines

Perceptual judgment of image similarity by humans relies on rich internal representations ranging from low-level features to high-level concepts, scene properties and even cultural associations. However, existing methods and datasets attempting to explain perceived similarity use stimuli which arguably do not cover the full breadth of factors that affect human similarity judgments, even those g...

The problem of agency: how humans act, how machines act

A long-standing debate in the IS literature concerns the relationship between technology and organization. Is it technology that acts on organizations, or humans that determine how technology is used? Proposals for a middle way between the extremes of technological and social determinism have been put forward based on Giddens’ structuration theory, and, more recently, from actor network theory....

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...

Disabilities and How to Live with Them

Descarto-ackermanno-filkornised systems: Why?, How?, Why not otherwise? or Why not, otherwise!

This paper is a result of more than 3 decades of intensive research and development. It exhibits several keys to understanding and conceiving technologies considered or even proved by the standards of modern science as impossible to produce, such as, for instance, the automated synthesis of recursive programs. The paper shows a direction that allows to escape from limits of contemporary science...