速報！19年度鹿児島大学医学部学士編入試験

本日行われた鹿児島大学の情報が入ってきました。
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NewsWeek 2007 April 23
Sharon Begley,"Know Thyself-Man,Rat or Bot"

[Extract]
Whether it is an eerily human bot in a virtual-reality game, an animal looking at you with soulful eyes or a patient in a vegetative state, the question nags and nags and won't go away: is there a thinking, self-aware, conscious mind in there? Not one that merely exhibits intelligence, since silicon chips do calculations that leave the human brain in the dust and even discover mathematical proofs. And not one merely capable of empathy or grief or cooperation, which chimps, elephants ...

Science 2007 April
Elizabeth Pennosi,"Boom Time for Monkey Research"

無料記事です。
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/316/5822/216

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