Carr's article starts off quoting a very eerie scene from Kubrick's, "2001: A Space Odyssey." In the scene, HAL 9000, a questionably sentient supercomputer, is having his memory drives slowly pulled out one by one by Dave, the space faring protagonist. With each memory card pulled, ... ...

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... a second thought. Socrates replied that he would "obey the god," (p. 32) who set him on his course in life; rather than comply with the jury. In the Greek epic, The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus angers Poseidon, but he doesn"t kill him. Instead, he traps him on an island for years, which is a fate worse than death for Odysseus. And if Socrates ... ...

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