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"What You See" by Keith McLachlan

3/28/2020

 
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What You See is a short story about a simple subject: what makes us, us? Are our consciousness linked to intelligence, awareness, or our progression on the evolutionary tree?

If it's the latter, then have our consciousness changed throughout human history? And what about those who come after us?

Science's Science: What Is Philosophy?

12/14/2019

 
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Science doesn't just pop out of nowhere. The first person to ask for evidence on an unproven yet widely held idea applied reason to the physical world. But before that, reason was applied mostly on ideas.

Philosophy might not be as celebrated these days, but in the beginnings of science, it bridged the gap between what we believe and what we know.

"Bad Connection" by Keith McLachlan

10/26/2019

 
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Have you ever had a dream that is so real thhat it's comparable to the waking world itself? Were you in control of that dream? Were you in control of yourself in that dream at all?

These "lucid" dreams are being studied as part of how our brain works. It has great potential to make use of the presently untapped 1/3 of our lives. But are there dangers such as those in Bad Connection?

"Where Teleporters Go Missing" by Keith McLachlan

2/23/2019

 
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This story relates to the dilemma our society faces with every new technology. With gene editing, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, science's unending possibilities also carry also carries cautionary tales.

This is one of them...

"Comment Below" by Ciaran Parkes

8/25/2018

 
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Comment Below is probably the shortest story featured on IFSA thus far. But the story itself is anything but inadequate. It delves into a question that have puzzled computer scientists since the 1950s: how human can a computer be?

In Comment Below, the answer is 'yes', in more ways than one.

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