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- 2. What will happen to liberalism if scientific discoveries and technological developments spilt humankind into a mass of useless humans and a small elite of upgraded superhumans, or if authority shifts altogether away from human beings and into the hands of highly intelligent algorithms?
- 5. What algorithm could theoretically know me much better than I could ever know myself?
- 9. It follows that an __ algorithm could theoretically know me much better than I can ever know myself. An algorithm that monitors each of the systems that comprises my body and my brain could know exactly who I am, how I feel and what I want.
- 11. In relation to armies and corporations, what is mandatory?
- 13. Related to liberalism, the decision of voters and customers are neither deterministic nor __.
- 14. The term used to describe how humans are in danger of losing there value.
- 17. Who will enjoy unheard-of-abilities and unprecedented creativity, which will allow them to go on making many of the most important decisions in the world?
- 18. The life sciences undermine liberalism, arguing that the free individual is just a fictional tale concocted by an assembly of __ algorithms.
- 19. According to __, humans must draw from their inner experiences not only the meaning of their own lives, but also the meaning of the entire universe.
- 20. A word to describe that If you look really deep within yourself, the seeming unity we take for granted dissolves into a cacophony of conflicting voices, none of which is ‘my true self’.
- 21. The __ constituting a human are not free. They are shaped by genes and environment pressures, and take decisions either deterministically or randomly-but not freely.
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- 1. Which self retrieves memories, tells stories and makes big decisions.
- 3. To achieve __ , each person should prioritize the needs and experiences of others over their own desires.
- 4. What exists only in the imaginary stories we humans have invented?
- 6. The central religious revolution of modernity was not losing faith in God, rather, it was gaining faith in _.
- 7. The sacred word ‘freedom’ turns out to be, just like ‘soul’, an empty term that carries no discernible meaning. __ exists only in the imaginary stories we humans have invented.
- 8. There are two different selves within us, one is the narrating self and the other is __.
- 10. In the coming millennium, Liberalism is threatened not only by the philosophical idea that there are no free individuals but rather by concrete __.
- 12. The experiencing self is our moment-to-moment __.
- 15. Who believe that we have a single individual self.
- 16. As far as we know, computers in 2016 are no more conscious than their prototypes in the 1950’s. However, we are on the brink of a momentous revolution. Humans are in danger of losing their value because of _ ?