From Decline of the West to Dawn of Day

Janus Head ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Hub Zwart ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
The West ◽  
Smart Technologies

This paper subjects Dan Brown’s most recent novel Origin to a philosophical reading. Origin is regarded as a literary window into contemporary technoscience, inviting us to explore its transformative momentum and disruptive impact, focusing on the cultural significance of artificial intelligence and computer science: on the way in which established world-views are challenged by the incessant wave of scientific discoveries made possible by super-computation. While initially focusing on the tension between science and religion, the novel’s attention gradually shifts to the increased dependence of human beings on smart technologies and artificial (or even “synthetic”) intelligence. Origin’s message, I will argue, reverberates with Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, which aims to outline a morphology of world civilizations. Although the novel starts with a series of oppositions, most notably between religion and science, the eventual tendency is towards convergence, synthesis and sublation, exemplified by Sagrada Família as a monumental symptom of this transition. Three instances of convergence will be highlighted, namely the convergence between science and religion, between humanity and technology and between the natural sciences and the humanities.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Paradigma Integrasi Ilmu: Harmonisasi Islam dan Sains dalam Pendidikan

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
Fahri Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Main Driver

Secularism that separates religion from mundane aspects, including science andknowledge, that appeared and applied in the West turned out to present themselves asa different face when applied in the Islamic world. In the West, secularism became areason for science breeding. Meanwhile, in the Islamic world, secularism actually triggerthe birth of science dichotomy that led to the neglect of science. In turn, the practiceof science dichotomy is precisely the cause of the deterioration of Islamic civilization.Muslim community has a different cultural history with the West. Historically, Islambecame the main driver of progress of science in the golden age. This is different withWestern history that marred by tensions between science and religion. Therefore, Islamiceducation should be developed in accordance with its integrative and nondichotomousculture. Therefore, religion and science in Islam is a unity. Epistemology of Islamiceducation is built by making sciences as part of its supporting pillars.

scholarly journals DISMANTLING THE MEANING OF LOVE: A DECONSTRUCTION IN THE NOVEL CINTA TERAKHIR BY VINCENTIUS J. BOEKAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Vincentius Mauk ◽  
Nadya Afdholy
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The West ◽  
Fixed Price ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
The Republic ◽  
West Timor

This study aims to deconstruct the meaning of love in the novel Cinta Terakhir by Vincentius J. Boekan. The novel Cinta Terakhir by Vincentius J. Boekan tells the romance of two human beings, Armando and Rosalia whose meaning is different from love in general. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The results showed that (1) the main character of Armando was a betrayer of love who appeared when Indonesian political conditions were influenced by international politics, then Armando's characters betrayed their love by choosing the NKRI ideology as a fixed price, (2) the nature of patriotism was so inherent in the character's characteristics Armando is very strong towards the ideology of the Republic of Indonesia so Armando prefers to flee with hundreds of thousands of East Timorese people to the West Timor of the Republic of Indonesia and leaves his beloved wife and only daughter in Timor Leste, but Catholic marriage remains husband and wife until death separates.

scholarly journals Autonomous Vehicles – a New Challenge to Human Rights?

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Iwan
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Control ◽  
And Robotics

New technologies, as autonomous vehicles are, disrupt the way people exist, and con-sequently with human rights. Research devoted to artificial intelligence and robotics moves freely and the destination, for the time being, is unknown. This is the reason why special attention should be paid to the ethics of these branches of computer science in order to prevent the creation of a crisis point, when human beings are no longer neces-sary.. The aim of this paper is to examine whether such development is a new challenge to human rights law and what happens when an autonomous vehicle drives an autono-mous human being. The paper also mentions the desirable level of human control over the machine so that human dignity, from which human rights originate, is preserved.

scholarly journals Choice of Exhaustive or Heuristic Search to Solve AI Problems

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
Dalya A. Gatsh
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Heuristic Search ◽  
Search Strategy ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
Search Mechanism ◽  
The Common ◽  
Living Environments

 Artificial intelligence is an appealing area of research in computer science because it is concerned with the discovering of effective techniques that have been mainly motivated from human beings or their living environments to solve problems that have special nature. In this research, we aim first to introduce and analyze the common characteristics of problems that artificial intelligence interested in, and then we will highlight how to prepare such problems to solve them by search. The main goal of our study is helping us to decide which search strategy is better through investigating the behavior of most popular search strategies to find out the desired solution for two examples of a simple artificial intelligence problem. Our experiments presented that the required time and memory space to solve the problem mainly affected by many factors such as the applied search mechanism, the solution position, the number of available solutions, and the complexity in search.

scholarly journals The shaping of rationality in science and religion

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wentzel J. Huyssteen
Keyword(s):  
Science And Religion ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Scientific Rationality ◽  
Theology And Science ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Epistemological Complexity ◽  
Human Rationality ◽  
Rationality Of Science

In this paper the focus is on the extreme epistemological complexity of the relationship between religion and science as two dominant forces in our culture today. This complexity is aggravated by a seemingly conflictual postrnodern, pluralist challenge to a culture that already reveals itself as decidedly empirically-minded. For theology  and science a meaningful dialogue becomes possible only if both modes of reflection are willing to move away from overblown foundationalist epistemologies and, for theology at least, from the intellectual coma of fideism. The paper finally argues for a postfoundationalist epistemology where theo-logy and science, although very different modes of reflection, do share the  richness of the  resources of human rationality. In so doing it attempts to answer three crucial questions: i) are there good reasons for still seeing the  natural sciences as our clearest available example of rationality at work? ii) If so, does the rationality of theological reflec-tion in any way overlap with scientific rationality?  iii) Even if there are impressive overlaps between these two modes of rationality, how would the rationality of science and the rationality of religious reflection differ?

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence and its Application in Various Fields

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1336-1339
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Military Planning ◽  
Actual Meaning ◽  
And Robotics ◽  
Applications Of Ai ◽  
The Way

The term ‘AI’ is not a new term but the actual meaning of ai is still hidden. Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to create machines which are as intelligent as human beings. AI mainly focus on some questions like knowledge required while thinking, the way knowledge can be presented and the way knowledge can be used in other field’s viz. Robotics. Scope of AI is much wider than our thinking. It is not limited to only one or two areas rather in coming future everything will be directly or indirectly linked to AI. Much research has been done on artificial intelligence which has shown that by the end of 2020 many works which was not possible by human beings will be efficiently and accurately can be carried out by the help of robots. Robotics is a branch of engineering that deals with formation, designing, manufacturing, operation of robots. Artificial intelligence is being applied to many areas which are capable to solve many problems like in robotics, e-commerce, domestic chores, medical treatment, gaming, mathematics, military planning etc. The main idea behind the merging of artificial intelligence and robotics is to optimize the level of autonomy through learning. In the coming future we can surely overcome the disadvantages of robots like misuse of it with the help of facial recognition. Or we can use AI in other fields like in cyber security to prevent the systems from being hacked. The applications of AI and how we can implement other applications in coming time are discussed adding to it how we can overcome the disadvantages of using robots in regular life are also discussed.

scholarly journals Lecture two: The evolution of morality: The emergence of personhood

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Moral Awareness ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Evolutionary Origins ◽  
Evolution Of Morality ◽  
Epistemic Standing

In a series of three articles, presented at the Goshen Annual Conference on Science and Religion in 2015, with the theme ‘Interdisciplinary Theology and the Archeology of Personhood’, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen considers the problem of human evolution – also referred to as ‘the archaeology of personhood’ – and its broader impact on theological anthropology. This trajectory of lectures tracks a select number of challenging contemporary proposals for the evolution of crucially important aspects of human personhood. Lecture Two argues that, on a postfoundationalist view, some of our religious beliefs are indeed more plausible and credible than others. This also goes for our tendency to moralise and for the strong moral convictions, we often hold. It demonstrates that, in spite of a powerful focus on the evolutionary origins of moral awareness, ethics emerge on a culturally autonomous level, which means that the epistemic standing of the particular moral judgements human beings make is independent of whatever the natural sciences can says about their genesis.

scholarly journals Personal data in artificial intelligence projects: main study elements.

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Juan Francisco Rodríguez Ayuso
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Main Study ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact

This research focuses on the impact of the new regulations on the protection of personal data in the scientific field of computer science, which is centered on the creation of programs and mechanisms that can display behaviors considered intelligent. In other words, the necessary respect for the fundamental right to data protection in those technological advances that, progressively, make machines think like human beings, determining what are the possible legal bases that can be found to legitimize all processing of personal data that occur in this new field.

TRANSFORMASI DIALEKTIKA SEGITIGA: POSISI DAN PERAN DALAM KAJIAN INTEGRASI AGAMA, SAINS, DAN TEKNOLOGI

1970 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-333
Author(s):  
Sarno Hanipudin
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Empirically Supported

This paper is intended to describe how the integration of religion and science is done through the practice of PAI learning. This was done because there is a strong presumption in the wider community who say that religion and science are the two entities that can not be met. Both have their respective territories, separated from each other, in terms of formal-material objects, research methods, criteria of truth, the role played by scientists. There is also a view that science and religion stand at their respective position, because science rely on empirically supported data to ascertain what is real and what is not, contrary religion ready to accept the supernatural and certainly not only be based on tangible variables of faith and the belief that religion and science must coexist independently of each other, because even though there are similarities in their mission, the fundamental difference between the two present a conflict that will resonate on each core. Tulisan ini ditujukan untuk mendeskripsikan bagaimana integrasi agama dan sains dilakukan melalui praktik pembelajaran PAI. Hal itu dilakukan karena ada anggapan yang kuat dalam masyarakat luas yang mengatakan bahwa agama dan ilmu adalah dua entitas yang tidak dapat dipertemukan. Keduanya mempunyai wilayah masing-masing, terpisah antara satu dan lainnya, baik dari segi objek formalmaterial, metode penelitian, kriteria kebenaran, peran yang dimainkan oleh ilmuwan. Ada juga yang memandang bahwa sains dan agama berdiri pada posisinya masingmasing, karena bidang ilmu mengandalkan data yang didukung secara empiris untuk memastikan apa yang nyata dan apa yang tidak, agama sebaliknya siap menerima yang gaib dan tidak pasti hanya didasarkan pada variabel berwujud dari iman dan kepercayaan bahwa agama dan sains harus hidup berdampingan independen satu sama lain, sebab meskipun ada kesamaan dalam misi mereka, perbedaan mendasar antarakeduanya menyajikan sebuah konflik yang akan beresonansi pada inti masingmasing.

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