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The belief that physical matter is the foundation of reality, and that the processes of life are ultimately explicable by scientific laws.


Articles on KurzweilAI.net that refer to Materialism

Chapter 4: Kurzweilís Impoverished Spirituality By William A. Dembski
Consciousness By John Searle
Chapter 8: Dembskiís Outdated Understanding By Ray Kurzweil
Introduction: Are We Spiritual Machines? By George Gilder and Jay W. Richards
The Rights of Your Robots: Exclusion and Inclusion in History and Future By Sohail Inayatullah
Forecasts and Alternative Futures By Sohail Inayatullah
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness By David Chalmers
Consciousness in Human and Robot Minds By Daniel Dennett
Chapter 10: The Material World: ìIs That All There Is?î By Ray Kurzweil
Are We Spiritual Machines? By Jay W. Richards, Michael Denton, Thomas Ray, William A. Dembski, John Searle, George Gilder, and Ray Kurzweil

News Articles that refer to Materialism

Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.
Transforming capitalism: The Genius of the Beast

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