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AI systems have no life and no freedom — and never will. But they will certainly shape our world. How they shape us will ...

His poems bridge the gap between nature’s wild expanse and the private space of one’s imagination.

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Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...