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		<title>Remote-Controlled Cyborg Insects Created</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have succeeded in controlling a group of beetles' flight initiation, cessation, and elevation via stimulus of the brain which elicited, suppressed, or modulated wing oscillation. What, if any, are the implications in this for the free will basis of action? ]]></description>
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		<title>Modality and Semanticity in the Chinese Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of cognitive science and philosophy of mind is oriented around computational and functionalist theories of mind which hold, respectively, that the human mind is a digital computer and that what makes a mind a mind is not what it's made of but rather how it functions. Strong AI is the thesis that computers are (at least potentially) capable of human-like thought. John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment and related argument for the impossibility of Strong AI is commonly referenced in philosophical discussions of the mind and has been cited as central to cognitive science. However, Searle's reasoning contains a modality problem and an oversight of computers' inherent semanticity.]]></description>
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		<title>Concept-Forming &amp; -Using Brain Regions Located</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Concept formation is a hallmark of intelligence, but we know very little of how brains form and use concepts. Using fMRI scanning, Dharshan Kumaran and his colleagues at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, part of University College London, identified the hippocampus and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC), respectively, as the relevant regions of the brain.]]></description>
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		<title>On Being a Judge on a Health Care Death Panel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TIME has published Joel Stein's new commentary on the panels that determine who does and who does not receive medical treatment.]]></description>
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		<title>Repower America Hotline Now Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Alliance for Climate Protection's Repower America Hotline is now live. To help lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil, reduce harmful pollution, and improve the U.S. economy by creating new jobs, U.S. voters can do the following:]]></description>
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		<title>Benson Mates Dies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Professor Benson Mates (b. 1919) died May 13, 2009. A brief outline of his career...]]></description>
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