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Can consciousness and free will help us compete with robots?

David Hodgson had the unusual distinction of being both a senior Australian judge and a philosopher of some note. ... If Hodgson is right we seem to have an advantage over machines when it comes to making decisions about “incommensurables”.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/10/18/can-consciousness-and-free-will-help-us-compete-with-robots-.html
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Game of Thrones and the fluid world of medieval gender

Image: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger/Wikimedia Commons. Some commentators excuse what they see as the blatant misogyny of the series by noting that author George RR Martin could hardly have written
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2016/04/21/game-of-thrones-and-the-fluid-world-of-medieval-gender.html
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Hype and cash are muddying our understanding of quantum computing

While there is still no clear path to a practical quantum computer, the field is exciting enough without the overblown claims, writes Professor Michael Biercuk.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2017/08/29/hype-and-cash-are-muddying-our-understanding-of-quantum-computin.html