While many of the philosophers you are reading about have been dead
for hundreds and even thousands of years, their ideas are still very much alive. This
section illustrates the ways in which selected philosophic ideas from the chapter are
relevant in your life today.
You are invited to think and possibly write about these contemporary connections.
Metaphysics and Science
Computers and Consciousness
Can Computers Think?
The Turing Test
Descartes' Legacy
Freewill and the Twinkie Defense