by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 15, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 15 January 2024 On July 6, 2023, the Channel News Asia website published an article by Reuters entitled ‘AI robots could play future role as companions in care homes.’ The article featured Nadine, an A.I. powered social robot invented by Nadia Magnenat Thalmann,...
by ETHOS Institute | Jan 8, 2024 | Translated Articles
2024年1月8日 《关于培育年轻人 》 CNA 网站 2021 年发表的一篇文章称，根据 2020 年新加坡人口普查， “在2020 年有20% 的新加坡居民没有宗教信仰”。这个群体占人口的五分之一，现在是仅次于第二大群体的佛教徒（31.1%）。而第三大群体是占 18.9%的基督徒。 令人担忧的是，普查还表明，与老年人和成年人相比，年轻人更倾向没有宗教信仰。文章报导“在2020 年，15 至 24 岁中有 24.2% 没有宗教信仰，高于 55 岁及以上居民的 15.2%。＂ 根据政策研究所 (IPS)...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 1, 2024 | Special Articles
Digital Immortality? Mind Uploading and the quest for everlasting life ¿Inmortalidad digital? La transferencia mental y la búsqueda de la vida eterna Abstract The quest for immortality is probably as old as humankind itself. In recent decades a group of...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 1, 2024 | Credo
Credo 1 January 2024 “And he who was seated on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.'” (Revelation 21:5) Our world at the beginning of 2023 is pretty much the same as it was at the end of 2022. It is a world that continues to be...
by Bishop Emeritus Dr Robert M. Solomon | Jan 1, 2024 | Feature
Feature 1 January 2024 The acronym CRISPR (pronounced Crisper) in full is a mouthful: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. In simple terms, it has to do with editing DNA using RNA and Cas9 (enzyme), a technique discovered from studying how...
