Drawing on Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, this course explores how a mindset that distinguishes between parts and wholes affects scientific, social, and ethical judgment. Through a variety of examples and philosophical discussions, he shows how to make rational decisions in complex situations and emphasizes the importance of setting objective criteria. When you think of...
Biometric systems offer convenience and high security, but a data breach can seriously threaten an individual’s identity and privacy. To prevent this, it is necessary for countries, companies, and individuals to strengthen security awareness and take proactive measures. Currently, we are looking forward to a better life with the development of convenient technologies. In particular...
Jeremy Rifkin argues that modern mechanical civilization promotes energy waste and increased entropy, which will eventually lead to the end of humanity. He criticizes materialism and proposes a new worldview that follows the law of entropy, but lacks a discussion of the positive aspects of technology and sustainable development. In Jeremy Rifkin’s book, entropy is defined as “in...
The claim that animism, as presented in Eugene Noah Harari’s Homo Deus, treats animals and humans as equals is contradicted by the anthropocentric interpretations of actual tribes. This article discusses how animism is a faith that is interpreted according to human interests rather than animal respect, and raises the need to think about true animal respect. In Yuval Noah...
The success of the artificial intelligence program AlphaGo has put neural network learning in the spotlight. Neural network learning is a technique that models the human brain to learn from data and use it to solve complex problems. It’s opening up the possibility that artificial intelligence can think like humans. In 2016, an event occurred that shocked many people. Alpha Go, an...
As the Russia-Ukraine war intensifies energy supply challenges, shale gas development in the U.S. is gaining traction. Shale gas has the potential to be a game-changer in the energy market, but it also poses significant environmental risks. The toxicity of chemical additives, disposal of recovered water, and greenhouse gas emissions from hydraulic fracturing techniques need to be addressed...
The recent digital transformation of classrooms offers convenience, but there are concerns that it may have a negative impact on students’ concentration and memory. We discuss how traditional note-taking can still be effective for in-depth learning. In the past, classes were taught by a teacher who would explain things on the board and students would take notes in their textbooks or...
Selfishness stemming from an organism’s reproductive instinct can explain altruistic behavior in kinship relationships, but not non-kin altruism. In addition to the kin selection hypothesis, other hypotheses, such as reciprocal altruism, suggest reasons for altruistic behavior and provide an important basis for understanding the behavior of living things. All living things have a...
This article discusses the need for a cautious approach to infusing emotions into AI, emphasizing that emotional AI could undermine human morality and social order and threaten human survival. Yuval Harari says that scientists dream of creating inanimate programs with the ability to learn and evolve on their own, a technology that will transform humanity in the future. One such inanimate...
This course covers the process of determining a ship’s engine power, explaining how to apply data from a scale model to a full-scale ship, and how to select the optimal engine considering sea conditions and emergencies. A ship is a structure designed to float on water while carrying cargo or people. Throughout human history, ships have been used for a variety of purposes, including...
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