Amnesty International

-In this lecture we have a representative from amnesty international speaking to us about origin,
what they do their principals and the basic operational proceedures, and with a little role playing,
an issue they deal with.

-David Hicks, this is before the trial of David Hicks and he hasn't been charged.

-Awareness of the australian government to do something about an Australian.

-Compensation? Suing the Australian court the new terrorism bill the stops personal liberties,

Intelligence: Human,Artificial & Alien

Peter Slezak
School of History and Pholosophy of Science
University of New South Wales

Arguments evidence and reasoning.
How irrational are we?
What do we do understand about the mind and what we dont?

What is Intelligence?

//The Cognitive Revolution
Book: The Mind New Science: Howard Gardner 1984
Noam Chomsky, Linguist well respected western academic.

//Extra Terrestrials
Probability 1?
Why there must be intelligent life in the universe.

SETI Program

Voyager 2, 1977
Strange signs

Drake Equation
Is it right?

SETI: Probabiliyu 0?
-How many independent events n?
-What probabilities?
-Consider 100 events at 1/100 chance each
-p=1/10^200

-What is love? A whole set of chemical reactions in your head? A signal that you are ready to mate,
a inate reaction, realisation of mortality, that promotes procreation? And survival or the species?

-Natural Selection, there is no other scientific theory that is true.

-In the lecture, there was a huge clash between scientific reasoning, mathemathics and logic vs
alternative intangible beliefs.

-Can we afford to believe what we will? Why does it matter to anyone else? The issue of global
warming this has immediate fact on our personal wellbeing and survival as a race?

-Everything we do in this world, is just a little blue pixel, a dot in the greater universe, an
insignificant speck in the greater scheme of things, if that is what a higher power would have
planned for us.

-Are we as a civilisation, able to survive our inevitiable own self destruction? Or even destruction,
due to natural causes? Meteorite anyone?

-Interesting that people are converted or mind opend on the one lecture.

-He was quite harsh on the alternative people.
-Changed his stance mid way, why have his children.
-More of an entertainer than a philosopher?
-Science is as much a belief system as a relgion is.

-What is faith? Is it blind, is it a wildcard that fills all our inexplainable facts?