Archive for 'Rant' Category

The failures of modern day atheism

3 September 2010

I’ve been meaning to post something for awhile and this is a topic that I felt was worth discussing. Some of the things I’m about to say I suspect many will disagree with, and by posting this I’m opening myself to attack; however I feel that brutal honestly allows us to address the problems in [...]

UN Human Rights Council Attacks Free Speech involving religion

28 March 2009

“Freedom House condemns the UN Human Rights Council for undermining the universal right to freedom of expression by once again passing a resolution that urges members to adopt laws outlawing criticism of religions. The “defamation of religions” resolution, introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC), passed today by a [...]

San Jose Professor Fired for Answering Question about Genetics and Homosexuality

18 July 2008

A former San Jose City College biology professor is suing the college after she was fired for answering a student’s question on the relationship between homosexuality and heredity. On June 21, 2007, June Sheldon, an adjunct professor teaching a human heredity course, answered a question about how heredity affects homosexual behavior by citing the class [...]

What duplicating or backing up your mind really means: Mind snapshots

9 July 2008

Shortly after writing the The challenge of mind duplication/transfer post I went seeking others to chat with about this topic. I hoped on irc and had an interesting conversation in a neuroscience channel. It was a great conversation that lead to some very interesting possibilities being discussed. People typically think that duplicating the mind means [...]

Modeling Conciousness: what do we do with AI?

23 June 2008

We’ve heard that AI will be the future and change our lives. We’ve seen movies where robots have human personalities and can interact with us as interact with each other. In order to achieve these “AI use cases” you must first understand what it means to be human and more specifically what mimicking our behavior [...]

Media questions Obama’s morality for smoking, imaginary man still ok

11 June 2008

Obama was slammed today by the media for smoking. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/obama-admits-sm.html Why does the media spend so much time slamming people on nonsense? Its times like these I miss the 1980′s when I don’t remember seeing this sort of crap in the news. What I found most amusing is that the media will slam a person [...]

Introductions – Rant #1

8 May 2008

I’m Robert and I enjoy spending my spare time thinking about why people think life has a purpose, different viewpoints, why humans seek a higher purpose, society concepts, AI, reverse engineering, solving odd problems, and anything else interesting. You may find the style I write in to be unusual but don’t let it scare you [...]

Welcome to eAtheists.com

7 May 2008

Welcome. I’ve been meaning to make a website discussing religion, AI, the human mind, hacking, and science in general and decided it was time. This website will be a collection of rants, opinions, and discussions anything related to the prior topics and challenge the way you think about human perceived reality. Some of these posts [...]