In so far as this goal is achieved, the society becomes more fluid, artificial barriers to social mobility are reduced, and people at the lower end of the social hierarchy share more fully in the material and cultural goods of society.

It is the most common form of artificial lighting and is essential to modern society, providing interior lighting for buildings and exterior light for evening and nighttime activities.

A " society " may even, though more by means of metaphor, refer to a social organism such as an ant colony or any cooperative aggregate such as, for example, in some formulations of artificial intelligence.

Kimmel cites Heinlein's “ colloquial language .. an extrapolated lunar creole that has arisen from the forced intersection of multiple cultures and languages in the lunar penal colonies ”; the protagonist's disability ; “ the frank treatment of alternative family structures ”; and “ the computer which suddenly wakes up to full artificial intelligence, but rather than becoming a Monster that threatens human society and must be destroyed as the primary Quest of the story, instead befriends the protagonist and seeks to become ever more human, a sort of digital Pinocchio .”

Minds, powerful artificial intelligences, have an important role to play in this society.

The Culture is a symbiotic society of artificial intelligences ( AIs ) ( Minds and drones ), humanoids and other alien species who all share equal status.

The Culture is a posthuman society, which originally arose when seven or eight roughly humanoid space-faring species coalesced into a quasi-collective ( a group-civilization ) ultimately consisting of approximately thirty trillion ( short scale ) sentient beings ( this includes artificial intelligences ).

) The motif of a secret superman society in the latter work, however, is not mentioned in Friday, where the heroine is an artificial person, and is not part of a secret society ( the principal reason to be secret about her artificialness is to avoid discrimination ).

This was just before the launch of the first artificial satellite and when satellite images taken from outer space showed the Earth as a sphere rather than flat, the society was undaunted ; Shenton remarked: " It's easy to see how a photograph like that could fool the untrained eye.

Similar goals were in evidence in his encyclicals Divini illius magistri ( 1929 ), making clear the need for Christian over secular education, and Casti Connubii ( 1930 ), praising Christian marriage and family life as the basis for any good society, condemning artificial means of contraception, but also acknowledging at the same time the unitive aspect of intercourse as licit:

In the resultant Communist society, the fundamental relation of the workers to the means of production would be equal and non-conflictual, because there would be no artificial ( class ) distinctions about the value of a worker ’ s labour ; the worker ’ s humanity ( species-essence ) thus respected, men and women would not become alienated, from themselves and their society.

In response, author and writer Rod Dreher stated in a RealClearPolitics column that the rhetoric of a culture war disguises the fact that American society truly is deeply divided on some moral issues, which is not an artificial creation of political parties seeking to drum up support.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

He also argues that conventional national and state borders are largely artificial and irrelevant, and that his " nations " provide a more accurate way of understanding the true nature of North American society.

They reformed into the Clans, a warrior-centric caste society relying on genetic manipulation and artificial birth.

Diogenes maintained that all the artificial growths of society were incompatible with happiness and that morality implies a return to the simplicity of nature.

In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony describes the ruling-class domination of a culturally diverse society by one social class, who manipulate the culture of the society — the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores — so that their ruling-class Weltanschauung becomes the worldview that is imposed and accepted as the cultural norm ; as the universally valid dominant ideology that justifies the social, political, and economic status quo as natural and inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class.

The initial, theoretic application of cultural domination was as an analysis of economic class, which Antonio Gramsci developed to comprehend social class ; hence, the theory of cultural hegemony proposes that the prevailing cultural norms of society, which are imposed by the ruling class ( bourgeois cultural hegemony ), must not be perceived as natural and inevitable, but must be recognized as artificial social constructs ( institutions, practices, beliefs ) that must be investigated to discover their roots as instruments of social-class domination.

In 1750 he read a paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets, which procured him election as a fellow of the society and the award of the Copley Medal.

Both works illustrated the intellectual fashions and favourite themes of Renaissance society — in a highly artificial and mannered style.

Given enough variety of " species " they might even form a type of ecology, or — should they also have a form of artificial intelligence — a society.

The useful suggestion of Professor David Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments.

( Rossum's Universal Robots ) ( 1921 ) – the play that introduced the word robot to the world – were organic artificial humans, the word " robot " has come to primarily refer to mechanical humans, animals, and other beings.

Another place popular with children is the Parque Papagayo which is a large family park which has life-sized replicas of a Spanish galleon and the space shuttle Columbia, three artificial lakes, aviary, skating rink, rides, go-karts and more.

The epideictic speech in praise of love which Agathon recites in the Symposium is full of beautiful but artificial rhetorical expressions, and has led some scholars to believe he may have been a student of Gorgias.

Bacillus Calmette – Guérin ( or Bacille Calmette – Guérin, BCG ) is a vaccine against tuberculosis that is prepared from a strain of the attenuated ( weakened ) live bovine tuberculosis bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis, that has lost its virulence in humans by being specially subcultured ( 230 passages ) in an artificial medium for 13 years, and also prepared from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

However, research using an artificial gut has shown that in the specific case of carotenoids a greater proportion is absorbed from cooked vegetables than from raw vegetables.

Recent research has unlocked the discovery of artificial circular earthworks dating to Cambodia's Neolithic era. 1

The risk, however, is not known, since artificial insemination has not been studied as a route of transmission.

It has also given rise to a new theory of the philosophy of mathematics, and many theories of artificial intelligence, persuasion and coercion.

This pattern of artificial production and later natural discovery has been repeated with several other radioactive naturally-occurring rare elements.

The Turing test is commonly cited in discussions of artificial intelligence as a proposed criterion for machine consciousness ; it has provoked a great deal of philosophical debate.

In the literature concerning artificial intelligence ( AI ), Searle's essay has been second only to Turing's in the volume of debate it has generated.

Port Hawkesbury has risen to prominence since the completion of the Canso Causeway and Canso Canal created an artificial deep-water port, allowing extensive petrochemical, pulp and paper, and gypsum handling facilities to be established.

Searle's thought experiment begins with this hypothetical premise: suppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in constructing a computer that behaves as if it understands Chinese.

* Mr. Igoe, a killer from the movie Innerspace who has an artificial hand.

He was initially appointed to the Indiana University's Computer Science Department faculty in 1977, and at that time he launched his research program in computer modeling of mental processes ( which at that time he called " artificial intelligence research ", a label that he has since dropped in favor of " cognitive science research ").

He admits that " a large fraction his audience seems to be those who are fascinated by technology ", but when it was suggested that his work " has inspired many students to begin careers in computing and artificial intelligence " he replied that he was pleased about that, but that he himself has " no interest in computers.

Provoked by predictions of a technological singularity ( the hypothetical moment at which artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence ), Hofstadter has both organized and participated in several public discussions of the topic.

He is a brilliant, ruthless scientist who has demonstrated mastery of robotics, mechatronics, metallurgy, chemistry, artificial intelligence, cloning, genetic engineering, biology, physics, astronomy, earth science, military tactics, cybernetics and mechanical engineering.

Lake Nasser, the world's largest artificial lake, has enabled planned use of the Nile regardless of the amount of rainfall in Central Africa and East Africa.

Environment – current issues: air heavily polluted with sulfur dioxide from oil-shale burning power plants in northeast ; contamination of soil and groundwater with petroleum products, chemicals at former Soviet military bases ; Estonia has more than 1, 400 natural and artificial lakes, the smaller of which in agricultural areas are heavily affected by organic waste ; coastal sea water is polluted in many locations.

Euphoria has been used in artificial intelligence experiments, the study of mathematics, for teaching programming, and to implement fonts involving thousands of characters.

EP has roots in cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology but also draws on behavioral ecology, artificial intelligence, genetics, ethology, anthropology, archaeology, biology, and zoology.