Leiber, Justin
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- A must read for any human being
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Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?: A Dialog
Justin Leiber
Manufacturer: Hackett Pub Co Inc
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ASIN: 0872200035 |
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A must read for any human being.......2006-07-03
This is one of those books that should be recommended reading for *everyone*. Set up as a very plausible yet still fictional United Nations debate, the book is a philosophical dialogue concerning whether or not animals and technology are people, and therefore possess intrinsic rights.
It's a very quick read--I finished it in less than an hour. However, that's because the writing is exceptionally well-done; the points are solidly made, but the format--conversation--allows them to flow smoothly. The book is only a little over 70 pages long, but it;s worth every one of them.
The nice thing is that the author doesn't favor one side or the other; he argues both viewpoints well, showing both the merits and flaws in each. In addition, some interesting parallels are brought up--for example, how in many cultures women weren't even considered "people" until recently. Also noteworthy are the debates of what constitutes consciousness.
I'm also fond of this particular quote:
"The multicellular organism is just an extreme example of [a collective individual]. Each cell carries on a miniature life, but the collective is so obviously the subject of biological generalizations that we see it as an organism much more than we see the individual cells as organisms." (p. 48)
5 of 5 stars!
Interesting Issue.......2000-03-29
This book deals with issues that we do not think in our daily life and this is what it is to be a person. It is amazing how the arguments of the book are construed and seems absurd to take the consideration of animals and machines being persons. Yet, regardless of its absurdity it is something that should be considered; an issue that should be debated on. The first thing that came to my mind while reading this book is that a person is similar to a computer in that persons are also 'programmed' by society and education (this issue is not about the computer we use in our daily lives but a more complicated machine). When reading this book keep in mind that a human being means "any individual of the genus Homo, esp. a member of the species Homo sapiens." So, obviously Justin Leiber is not saying that computers are humans because they are not from the same species. Now, what it is to be a person is something different. I never thought of the way we use the word person being equal to human being. In fact, I thought person=human being, but now I have realized this is not so. A human being is a person (there is no doubt about this) but not necessarily a person is a human being. For example, in law a corporation, a partnership, an estate, or other legal entity is recognized to a person, but not a human being. Think about it if a corporation that does not function with the same autonomy as the computer in the book is a person why the computer can not be a person too. All these things I have thought of came from reading this book. I strongly recommend it because it gives the possibility of opening our mind and seeing reality from a different perspective.
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BEYOND REJECTION (Del Rey Books (Paperback))
Justin Leiber
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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ASIN: 0345290542
Release Date: 1980-08-12 |
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Someone had stolen his body -.......2005-10-19
This is from the back of my copy of the book. "
Someone had stolen his body - and thereby hangs the tale...
Ismael Forth woke up to find he was dead - killed on a remote planet, the report was. His personality recording predating his death was now implanted in a new body.
But Forth knew he would never have traveled in space ... that the report was a lie - and he learned that his body had been stolen for a highly profitable, highly illegal mind implant.
Companioned by Candy Darling, a Federation agent whose eleven-year-old body housed an intelligence seven times that age, he set out to track down his old body - for the new form that now housed Ismael Forth once belonged to an attractive woman - with an elegant, if rather inconvenient, tail...
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The title refers to transplant rejection. Will Ismael Forth's "self" reject the body that it is now housed in?
NOT A REVIEW.......1999-06-01
1) Please correct your database: the author's name is Justin, not "Justine".
2) Can you tell me what would be the preferred way for me to submit suggested corrections such as this?
Thank you, Michael Snyder
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Beyond Rejection
Justin Leiber
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FMIA7S |
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BEYOND REJECTION
Justin Leiber
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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ASIN: B000QWBYMA |
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Paradoxes (Interpretations)
Justin Leiber
Manufacturer: Duckworth Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0715624261 |
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Paradox for the beginner.......2001-04-18
This book does an excellent job explaining paradox in language the common person understands yet is still interesting to the student of philosophy. It covers simple paradox, memes, and game theory quite nicely. This book was required reading in a philosophy class I took, taught by Dr. Leiber at the University of Houston. And yes, he is Fritz Leiber's son.
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An Invitation to Cognitive Science
Justin Leiber
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishers
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ASIN: 0631170049 |
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Cognitive science asks about thought and thinking, about consciousness and computation, under the assumption that whatever the human brain does might well be done with different materials. Professor Leiber's exuberant but incisive book illuminates the inquiry's beginnings in Plato, in the physiology and psychology of Descartes, in the formal work of Russell and Gödel, and in Wittgenstein's critique of folk psychology. Leiber shows us the new science's paradigm in the ideas, inventions and proposals of Alan Turing, dramatically sketching its development in the hotly contested interface between cognitive psychology, generative linguistics, computer science, visual perception and neurophysiology, down to today's debate between connectionist and rationalist models of mind. While his energy, clarity and wit will enthrall the most casual reader, Leiber offers the initiate a fresh and compelling look at the roots and current dynamics of cognitive science.
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Beyond Humanity
Justin Leiber
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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The Sword and the Tower
Justin Leiber
Manufacturer: TOR
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000NLOCJ6 |
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- Lem, Stanislaw
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- Michail Lermontov
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