January 2012
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like? →
What would a post-SOPA internet look like? Here’s a glimpse of a dystopian future.
Let’s start with the personal: Your Tumblr, Twitter feed, or Facebook page could be “executed” at any time. A fair number of us have online homes these days, whether it’s a Wordpress blog with half a dozen readers or a Twitter page with half a million followers. If you happen to post copyrighted material on one...
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Is Free Will an Illusion?
Shaun Nichols
Abstract
Don’t trust your instincts about free will or consciousness, experimental philosophers say
Introduction
IT SEEMS OBVIOUS to me that I have free will. When I have just made a decision, say, to go to a concert, I feel that I could have chosen to do something else. Yet many philosophers say this instinct is wrong. According to their view, free will is a figment of our...
December 2011
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“It was a widely misinterpreted movie, I think…. People tend to say, “Why didn’t...”
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt on (500) Days of Summer
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November 2011
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Titanic (2012 3D) Trailer
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