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University of Houston and Georgetown University Law Schools Partner in Colloquium on Race, Racism, and American Media – PRNewswire
Posted: February 21, 2022 at 6:33 pm
HOUSTON, Feb. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Houston Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center, in collaboration with Free Press' Media 2070 project, will explore historic and contemporary racial discrimination in all modalities of modern media. The virtual colloquium will run from February 25 to February 26 and both days will begin at 10:30 a.m. EST.
The Media 2070 project, launched by the media and tech advocacy organization Free Press, is calling for media to repair the harm caused to the Black community by media institutions and government policies. As part of this effort, Media 2070, and more than 100 allied organizations and leaders, joined 25 members of Congress last year in calling for the FCC to conduct an equity audit of its historical and present-day policies and their impact on the media landscape.
Inspired by the Media 2070 project, UH Law and Georgetown Law, along with Free Press, decided to convene this virtual colloquium on race and racism in American media.
UH Law Center Dean Leonard M. Baynes said, "I am delighted that UH Law is collaborating in holding this important conference along with Georgetown Law and Free Press. The goal of the conference is to examine issues of underrepresentation of people of color in the media in ownership and employment historically leading to suboptimal programming, representations, and coverage. By bringing together such impressive and knowledgeable scholars, government officials, policy makers, activists, and business owners, we hope to chart a path forward to remedy this lack of representation and its negative consequences."
"It is incumbent upon us as leaders to help and guide the community to address our own unconscious biases that impact how we learn and interact with each other," said William M. Treanor, Executive Vice President and Dean of Georgetown University Law Center. "I, along with my colleagues, are looking forward to participating in this virtual conference and tackling issues of racial injustice and the causes at the root of racial inequities within our society."
"We are so grateful to the University of Houston Law Center and Georgetown Law for their partnership in convening this critical discussion. The conference is an important opportunity to address how government policies exclude the Black community and other communities of color from controlling our nation's communications infrastructure. This exclusion has resulted in the creation and distribution of anti-Black narratives that continue to undermine our country from fully realizing a racial justice society and democracy," said Joseph Torres, Senior Director of Strategy and Engagement Free Press/Media 2070.
Panelists will cover topics including the history of racism in American media; assessment of historic efforts by (and failures of) the FCC, Congress, state regulators, and others to address racism; the role of the First Amendment's Speech Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause as legal frameworks; legal and policy approaches to address racial injustices, including corporate activism; and how reparations may fit into a remedial approach.
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University of Houston Law Center media contacts: Carrie Anna Criado, UH Law Center Assistant Dean of Communications and Marketing, 713-743-2184, [emailprotected]; Elena Hawthorne, Assistant Director of Communications and Marketing, 713-743-1125, [emailprotected].
Georgetown University Law Center media contact: Deborah Gales, Georgetown Law Assistant Director, Office of Event Management, 202-662-9003, [emailprotected].
About the University of Houston Law CenterTheUniversity of Houston Law Center (UHLC) is a dynamic, top tier law school located in the nation's 4th largest city. UHLC's Health Law, Intellectual Property Law, and Part-time programs rank in the U.S. News Top 10. It awards Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees, through its academic branch, the College of Law. The Law Center is more than just a law school. It is a powerful hub of intellectual activity with more than 15 centers and institutes which fuel its educational mission and national reputation. UHLC is fully accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.
About the University of HoustonTheUniversity of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university recognized with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter for excellence in undergraduate education. UH serves the globally competitive Houston and Gulf Coast Region by providing world-class faculty, experiential learning and strategic industry partnerships. Located in the nation's fourth-largest city and one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse regions in the country, UH is a federally designated Hispanic- and Asian-American-Serving institution with enrollment of more than 47,000 students.
About Georgetown University Law Center
Georgetown University Law Centeris a global leader in legal education based in the heart of the U.S. capital. As the nation's largest law school, Georgetown Law offers students an unmatched breadth and depth of academic opportunities taught by a world-class faculty of celebrated theorists and leading legal practitioners. Second to none in experiential education, the Law Center's numerous clinics are deeply woven into the Washington, D.C., landscape. Close to 20 centers and institutes forge cutting-edge research and policy resources across fields including health, the environment, human rights, technology, national security and international economics. Georgetown Law equips students to succeed in a rapidly evolving legal environment and to make a profound difference in the world, guided by the school's motto, "Law is but the means, justice is the end."
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Lawmakers are pushing to muzzle teachers. Kansans who love unvarnished fact must push back – Florida Phoenix
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Teachers are the enemy.
Thats the message a pair of bills debated in back-to-back hearings last week in the Kansas Legislature sends. The proposed laws, which came out of GOP-controlled education committees, would stifle the ability of K-12 teachers to teach historical fact and diverse points of view, eliminate the affirmative defense for educators, and broaden the ability of parents to challenge books and just about everything else in school libraries and classrooms.
One of the bills would make it a crime for teachers to use material deemed obscene under the longstanding Supreme Court definition, which uses a three-part test that includes prevailing community standards.
That last part is redundant, because its already a crime to expose minors to obscenity. But it plants the suspicion, doesnt it? Just what are those teachers showing our kids? It could be pornography without redeeming social or artistic value, according to theMiller Test, and we must stop it!
The bills,HB 2662andSB 496, appear to be modeled after other proposed legislation spewing from the conservative Heritage Foundation, according toreporting from Kansas Reflectors Tim Carpenter.
The Washington, D.C., based think tank has a nice logo a Liberty Bell and has been influential since the days of Ronald Reagan. Until recently, its primary mission was climate change denial, but lately its jumped on the critical race theory firewagon. It claims that American institutions are not inherently racist because, hey,wasnt that settledduring the Civil War?
Only seven people testified in favor of the parental rights and transparency bills last week, while more than 100 opposed them. The lead for Team Christ was taken by Brittany Jones, an attorney with Kansas Family Voice, a Topeka outfit that says its vision is a Kansas where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive, and life is cherished.
Jones said the proposed legislation would give parents an opportunity to shield children from objectionable material. An opposing voice belonged to Chapparal High School senior Mattelyn Swartz, who plans to become a teacher. She said the Senate bill would limit educational opportunities for students, tie the hands of educators, and prevent a learning environment that is engaged and individualized.
But really, thats the point.
These hardcore GOP poohbahs would like to inject themselves between you and every aspect of civic and cultural life. They have largely succeeded here in Kansas.
They have managed to strip the governor of her emergency powers to deal with the pandemic; rammed through legislation during a historic special session to resist federal vaccine mandates; and prescribed punishment for employers who refused to grant vaccine exemptions based on a declaration of faith.
One of the education bills debated last week would shield conservative-minded teachers from consequences, such as negative evaluations or job loss, if they refused to teach ideas that conflicted with their religious or moral beliefs.
These folks talk a lot about freedom, but what they really mean is the ability to do just what they want while making other folks teachers, professors, medical boards bend to their will. And it goes nearly without saying that when they talk about God, they mean the white Christian ideal, a kind of long-haired favorite uncle standing in awheat fieldwho understands that sometimes temptation is just too much.
The tone across a broad range of legislation has been consistent, that government (except for their own brand) needs reined in, expertise is not wanted and that any declaration of religious faith is enough to opt you out of any shared civic or social responsibility. At this rate, it wont be long before a baptismal certificate will be accepted in lieu of having a valid insurance card in your Kansas registered vehicle.
The proposed legislationprobably wont pass, at least not this time, but that shouldnt make you feel any better about the theocrats in the Statehouse trying to control our public schools. They are anti-education, just as the Tennessee Board of Education was when, in 1925, it passed a law forbidding the teaching of evolution, leading to theScopes trial. At the trial, a young high school teacher named John Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan, a three-time presidential loser from Nebraska, a commanding orator and the leading fundamentalist Christian in America.
The proponents of the bills could have used Bryans testimony at the hearings last week, if only he hadnt died a few days after the verdict in the Scopes trial. His prosecution rested on the assertion that the law forbidding the teaching of evolution was necessary to defend parental rights, wasnt trying to force religion on anybody, wasnt bigoted. He defended miracles and attacked science. He dismissed expertise, appealed to patriotism, and recited a Robert Burns poem to rustic and simple pleasures.
What right has a little irresponsible oligarchy of self-styled intellectuals to demand control of the schools of the United States, in which 25 millions of children are being educated at an annual expense of $2 billion? Bryan asked the jury during his closing argument. Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis it is millions of guesses strung together.
It took a jury less than one minute to convict Scopes, who was fined $100.
In 1968, the Supreme Court finally ruled,in a case from Arkansas, that forbidding the teaching of evolution in public school was unconstitutional because it violates the establishment clause. The First Amendment guarantees Americans the right to practice religion or not but it also forbids the government from establishing a religion.
In the case of our theocrats, they demand preferred and deferential treatment, pass laws to provide the broadest possible shields to political allies and true believers, and say to hell with the rest of us. We already have religious exemptions from mask wearing and COVID-19 vaccinations granted solely by a claim of a severely (Im sorry,sincerely) held belief.
This is not the way its always been.
Up until the 2014Hobby Lobbycase, the Supreme Court had weighed the sincerity of belief, from a 1905 smallpox vaccination case to conscientious objectors to the draft during the Vietnam War. In Hobby Lobby, the court said a for-profit company could deny its employees health coverage for contraception based on the religious objections of the owners, and the question of sinceritywas not disputed.
To all you parents out there who are truly concerned about filthy books in your schools, let me say this: There is one book that can be found in every school library across the land, and it has some of the most disturbing things youd never want to read.
Theres a story where this old guy offers up his daughters to strangers, and another in which the daughters get the old man drunk and have sex with him, and father children by him. There are tales in which its hard to keep an accurate body count. There are passages in which innocents are massacred and punishment for supposed sin is passed from generation to generation.
It is full of interest,observedMark Twain. It has some noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
Twain was referring, of course, to theKing James Bible.
So here we are.
Its not possible to have a safe, responsible society when a large faction of us are given the equivalent of a Get Out of Jail Free card in the form of unquestioned religious exemptions. What is in the hearts of men and women is known only to themselves, and perhaps their gods, but it is unreasonable for declared but unproven belief to be the shield against every form of accountability, from helping fight a global pandemic by being vaccinated to teaching students that scientific consensus says evolution is a real thing. Ditto with manmade global warming. For an educator to do otherwise is irresponsible.
This is not discrimination. Its an existential test for our species.
And were failing it.
Nearly all of the stuff in the bills debated last week, from parental rights to transparency, is already on the books in Kansas. When pressed for evidence parents were being denied access to educational materials, Kansas Policy Institute lobbyist Mike ONeal talked himself into a knotbefore finally admitting he had no evidence, other than some anecdotes and a suspicion of what is going on.
The public has extraordinary public input into local school boards, so much so that its sometimes difficult these days for boards to function. Teachers are vetted by universities and licensed. The vast majority are professionals who take their jobs seriously, strive to give the students their best and would never think of using the classroom as a vehicle for personal or political objectives.
So, why the furor?
Because some Kansas lawmakers would like not only to micromanage classrooms, but to whitewash American history. Racial inequality is baked into the system, no matter what Heritage Foundation might say. Bigotry did not end with the Civil War, or when the Ku Klux Klan was outlawed in Kansas, or when Barack Obama was elected president. It persists as an appalling fact in American life, and a pressing problem that must be addressed before it poisons us all.
Ignorance is not the answer.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to revoke tenure for professors who teach critical race theory – Houston Public Media
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Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick at Stephens Elementary School
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick on Friday proposed revoking tenure for professors at public universities whose curriculum includes teaching about critical race theory.
The threat comes after the faculty council at the University of Texas at Austin earlier this week passed a resolution asserting its freedom to teach students about issues that include race and gender theory despite demands against it from politicians and others outside academia.
"This resolution affirms that educators, not politicians, should make decisions about teaching and learning, and supports the rights and academic freedom of faculty to design courses, curriculum, and pedagogy, and to conduct related scholarly research," reads part of the resolution, which is nonbinding. "This resolution affirms the fundamental rights of faculty to academic freedom in its broadest sense, inclusive of research and teaching of race and gender theory."
The document also states UT faculty "resolutely rejects" attempts by outside groups, including lawmakers and the system's board of regents, to dictate content.
Patrick said during a news conference at the Capitol Friday that the resolution is another signal the "woke left ... has gone too far."
"We are the ones who pay their salaries," he said, referring to members of the Texas Legislature. "The parents are the ones who pay tuition. And of course, we're going to have a say in what the curriculum is. Of course, we're going to have a say on behalf of the parents. If there are issues that the parents are unhappy with, that the taxpayer are unhappy with, or the Legislature is unhappy with or the Board of Regents.
Patrick added that hiding behind "this academic freedom argument" doesn't work.
Lawmakers already passed a bill banning the teaching critical race theory generally described as an academic discipline that examines the roles of race and racism in American history and how they function in law and society in public schools.
Patrick on Friday said the Legislature is prepared to go a step further when lawmakers reconvene next year. He proposed amending the Texas Education Code to include language that states teaching critical race theory is grounds for removal and ending tenure for all new hires.
Currently, the code states that "a faculty member be subject to revocation of tenure or other appropriate disciplinary action if incompetency, neglect of duty, or other good cause is determined to be present."
Patrick said that language will be amended to include that: "teaching critical race theory is prima facia evidence of good cause for tenure revocation."
"We are not going to allow a handful of professors who do not represent the entire group to teach and indoctrinate students with critical race theory, that we are inherently racist as a nation," he said. "We will change those rules and we will take tenure to be reviewed annually."
In a statement Texas Faculty Association President Pat Heintzelman said Patrick's proposal would continue an attack on education and academic freedom that began when lawmakers took aim at public schools.
"Despite what Dan Patrick apparently thinks, most people don't think like him, especially people who value education. Banning critical race theory from universities and limiting tenure are attacks on academic freedom, which is an important part of the process of helping students develop the critical thinking skills they will need for future success," Heintzelman said.
"The lieutenant governor's job is to give our public institutions of education the support they need for student success, and that means encouraging professors and students to discuss theories and issues that some people may find uncomfortable. Patrick, instead, seems intent on ignoring the First Amendment rights of faculty members and their students."
Proponents of broader discussions on race and its role in American society have argued the term "critical race theory" has been coopted by those who only seek to limit free speech.
"The term has been unjustifiably used to include all diversity and inclusion efforts, race-conscious policies, and education about racism, whether or not they draw from CRT," the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund states on its website. "Attempts to ban CRT are really attacks on free speech, on discussions about the truthful history of race and racism in the U.S., and the lived experiences of Black people and other people of color."
Patrick said his proposal has the backing of state Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, the chair of the Texas Senate's Higher Education Committee. The committee will hold interim hearings on the issue as they move forward, Patrick added.
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ACLU’s top lawyer in San Diego departs after 16 years – The San Diego Union-Tribune
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When David Loy was named the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties in April 2006, he joined an organization that had six staff members and was involved in a long list of legal cases and political causes.
Some 16 years later Loy is leaving his post to take a job as the legal director for the First Amendment Coalition, a statewide group that advocates for speech, access and expression rights of news media and citizens. His final day at the ACLU, which has now more than three dozen staff members including several lawyers, was Tuesday.
A graduate of Northwestern University School of Law, Loy had worked at a nonprofit law firm in Spokane that focused on police accountability, public access to government records and environmental issues. He had previously worked as a public defender in Spokane as well.
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Q: In the past 15 years San Diego has changed, demographically and politically. Have you seen a shift in peoples acceptance of the kinds of civil rights issues you advocate for?
A: I cant speak to popular perceptions. I dont have an opinion poll on the ACLU right now. I will say certainly in my 16 years Ive seen a lot of positive change locally. The ACLU affiliate locally has been able to work constructively with elected leaders in ways it could not in the past because the politics of an Diego has changed and the elected leaders have changed.
Ill give you one example. My predecessor Jordan Budd helped lead a challenge to San Diego Countys Project 100%, a program by which San Diego County forced every person applying for Cal Works benefits to submit to unannounced home inspections by law enforcement officers.
Jordan with co -counsel challenged that as a violation of Fourth Amendment. Unfortunately we did not prevail in federal courts. A few years ago, we launched a new challenge to Project 100% under state law, claiming it was a violation of state law that prohibits unjustified disparate impact in state-funded programs. And again we unfortunately lost that challenge in state court.
But based on the record and research and the investigation and data we gathered and built on and others had gathered, we made a strong case why the program was not only unjust, unfair, racially biased and an aspect of systemic racism but also was not cost effective and useful in achieving its purported goal of preventing welfare fraud. As a result of advocacy by my colleagues in our advocacy department, and the relationships they had built with the new majority on the county Board of Supervisors, the county Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to repeal Project 100%. Which is an action I think would have been unthinkable 10 or 15 years ago. Even five years ago.
Q: You are a civil rights lawyer in a city just a handful of miles from the border. A lot of the ACLUs work in the courtroom and outside involves border issues. In all the years you worked there the border has changed quite a bit. What is the state of the border in SD?
A: I think it depends on who you ask. For many people particularly people who have deep roots on both sides of the border, particularly communities of color Latino community it is a vibrant binational community and should be thought of as one region. I think that diversity and that community ought to be seen as a strength and appreciated as such.
There is unfortunately another view of the border, which I believe is rooted in racism, xenophobia and fear, which sees the border as a wall that must be maintained at all costs. I think not only is that unethical, immoral and racist, I think it is just plain impossible.
So I think how you see the border depends on who you ask. Many people who live here see it as a thriving binational community that should be treated with dignity and respect. And I hope over time that view will prevail.
Q: What is the biggest challenge or threat to civil liberties you see now to your successor? What is the biggest fire they will have to put out? ?
A: Nationally, the increasing tolerance for authoritarianism and the increasing disrespect for legitimate and peaceful democratic transfer of power is terrifying. This country has always had authoritarian movements, this country has always had wanna-be authoritarians. What is terrifying is how that has become mainstreamed and accepted within significant segments of the U.S. Locally and fortunately I think California has been relatively progressive on those issues. California is far from perfect and has many significant issues my ALCU colleagues will continue to fight, but those are better fights to have than the fights for basic respect for basic voting rights.
Q: Why leave now?
A: Ive been there for 16 years. FAC presented an opportunity for me to go both broader and deeper. This affiliate is responsible for work in San Diego and Imperial counties. So broader on a statewide level, and deeper into my first love in the law, which is defending free speech and peoples right to know. Thats been one of my deepest passions in the law, freedom of expression and access and transparency.
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The singularity of this grape season: a multi-speed market – FreshPlaza.com
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The Peruvian season is about to end and the South African origin is now in full swing. However, with the logistics problems the whole world is faced with, the increase in the price of the products and with the grape production in evolution, this 2021-2022 season is atypical, to say the least.
Peruvian seasonFor the Peruvian origin, the campaign took place in two times. The excellent pre-campaign before Christmas was followed by a turning point around the 20th of January, when significant volumes arrived from Ica. Then, the market started to lose some value, but remained stable in terms of consumption, with high prices. As for the quality, there has been no major problem. Overall, the quality was good, explains Timothe Levesque, purchasing manager South Africa in charge of developing new families of products.
South Africa: loading delays extended from 10 to 18 daysThe company started receiving the first shipments from South Africa at the beginning of January. This season is really atypical, because of all the problems in logistics linked to the availability of containers and ship rotation. Freight costs have exploded. Although the increase in value was less significant for South Africa than for Latin America, it still represents a real handicap. From June, freight costs should increase even more and become similar to those of South America. There are delays in the loading time, which creates a major problem because it affects the shelf-life of the products. The current delays for loading a container can go from 10 to 18 days more than usual. This means that two weeks are wasted for the distribution of the fruit, which creates a lot of uncertainty regarding the quality. This year, South Africa is expected to have a lot of volumes, but now nothing is certain anymore.
Grape prices have increased by 30%In addition to the increase in freight costs, importers must face the higher prices for packaging and other additional costs. We are forced to pass these costs onto the price of our products. Grape prices have increased by nearly 30% compared to a traditional year so, inevitably, consumption is also impacted.
New expensive but popular varietiesStrangely, despite the significant increase in the price of grapes, some varieties are not affected by the decline in consumption. In South Africa, many new varieties have been planted in recent years and they have now entered production. It is the case of some club varieties that are sold on the free market at extremely high prices, with a very dynamic consumption. This is also the singularity of this season, we have a multi-speed market.
Total Produce Indigo has a wide range of grapes, from so-called volume varieties to newer varieties, and for all three colors. We sell mainly seedless grapes. We also try to follow the new club varieties that are emerging, while keeping varieties of the Red Globe type. We want to satisfy all our clients, knowing that the more niche products we offer, the more positive the consumption tends to be.
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For more information:Timothe LevesqueTotal Produce IndigoPhone: +33 7 60 15 69 76t.levesque@indigo-fruit.com
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Caffeinated Donuts Bring About The Breakfast Singularity – Sprudge
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Coffee and donuts, has there even been such a perfect pair? The sweet from the donut balancing harmoniously with the bitter from the coffee, each bite demanding to be offset by a drink and vice versa. And as it seems to go nowadays with two great tastes that go great together, they have been smashed together into one product. This latest corporeal portmanteau comes via Hostesss new Boost Jumbo Donettes, a caffeinated confection soon to be hitting the shelves.
And lets just get this out of the way right at the top: isnt a Jumbo Donette simply just a donut? Im not mathematician, but a Big Small Donut seems like a very reducible fraction.
Nonetheless, Hostessmakers of non-oxymoronic treats like the Twinkie, Ding Dong, HoHo, and Snowballhave decided that any time spent drinking coffee is time not spent eating sugar snacks and have set out to remedy that with their latest release. Per Penn Live, each 2.5oz donut will contain 50-70mg caffeine, slightly less than a cup of coffee, with the caffeine in the 3x Donette will come from coffee bean extract.
For the initial launch the Boost Jumbo Donette will come in two flavors similar to coffee shop patrons: Chocolate Mocha and Caramel Macchiato. Chocolate Mocha is said to combine the decadent flavors of chocolate and espresso, while the Caramel Macchiato offers that of caramel and espresso flavor.
Retailing at $2.49 per individual package, the Boost Jumbo Donettes are set to roll out to convenience stores across the nation later this month. A quick search on the Hostess site found that pretty much every 7-11 nearby has a Boost just for me.
So while a coffee donut can never truly replace the magic that is coffee with a donut, in a pinch, the caffeinated coffee donut may be better than a bad version of either its components.
Zac Cadwaladeris the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.Read more Zac Cadwaladeron Sprudge.
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 19) – Singularity Hub
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear FusionAmit Katwala | WiredDeepMinds AI was able to autonomously figure out how to create these [plasma] shapes by manipulating the magnetic coils in the right wayboth in the simulation and when the scientists ran the same experiments for real inside the TCV tokamak to validate the simulation. It represents a significant step, says Fasoli, one that could influence the design of future tokamaks or even speed up the path to viable fusion reactors.
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Excluding All Reference to God From Science Is A Form of Theology – Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
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In this third podcast discussion, Dont Blame Me, Im a Meat Robot, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and theology professor Joshua Farris discuss how a belief in God is compatible with science. Egnor argues that belief in God is a necessity, to prevent science going off the rails:
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Michael Egnor: I wanted to talk just a little bit about philosophy of science and its relation to theology. First question is, is a belief in God compatible with the practice of science? It seems like a silly question, but its actually a pretty hot question nowadays
Joshua Farris: Theres this common idea that when we proceed utilizing the method of methodological naturalism as methodological naturalism is often taken to be just science it just is science. And science proceeds in a way that has no need for ghosts, angels, or eerie spirits, or God. In fact, we have no need for consciousness itself.
So you have people like the psychologist Bruce Hood, who are operating out of this sort of framework, who make these wild claims And so he goes on to suggest that we no longer need any idea of this free willing-self. Instead, we need to reexamine whats behind our thoughts and behavior, because science doesnt give us a free willing-self or a conscious self. There is no more need for that.
Note: University of Bristol developmental psychology professor, Bruce Hood, is the author of The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity (2012): Those who embrace the self as an individual in the West, or a member of the group in the East, feel fulfilled and purposeful. This experience seems incredibly real but a wealth of recent scientific evidence reveals that this notion of the independent, coherent self is an illusion it is not what it seems. From the Publisher
Michael Egnor: The odd thing, if you think about it, why would any one try to convince other people that there is no free will? Because if there is no free will, then other people arent free to choose to agree or disagree. I mean, just the whole process of discourse presupposes the option of choosing. And if everythings guided simply by physical interactions, then we all just reflex preparations anyway, and why bother? That just amazes me.
Joshua Farris: Thats right. Why would you try to persuade me of that?
Michael Egnor: Right. The other thing is that the philosophers and scientists who argue that the notion of God and spirits and things like that are superfluous to science, are the same people who propose that an uncountable number of universes exist within the multiverse. And of course, they invoke that to try to defend a naturalistic understanding of the fine tuning of the universe and so on. So theyll posit the existence of uncountable other universes, thats not too strange. But the idea that there might be a God is crazy, and just off the plate.
Unless one presumes that they just dont want to face up to God. If you want to get rid of God, thats the way to do it; you just stipulate that he doesnt exist. And then you cant do science without him and then you make up all sorts of crazy stuff and call it science.
Joshua Farris: Jerry Coyne at the University of Chicago makes claims like this: In This Idea Must Die, he states quote, The illusion of agency is so powerful that even strong incompatiblists like myself will always act as if we had choices, even though we know we dont. We have no choice in the matter.
Note: This Idea Must Die (2015): In 2014 [editor John Brock] asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating. From the Publisher
Michael Egnor: The funny thing is that the exact opposite is true. They do have choices and they pretend that they dont. Ive interacted with Coyne quite a bit. We go back and forth on blog debates.
And hes quite hilarious. He actually put up a post on his blog a couple years ago showing, I think, a dented fender on his car. Somebody in the faculty parking lot had bumped into his car and then drove off. And didnt own up to it.
I said, well, if the guy had no free will, how can you blame him? I mean, if it was a meat robot, theres no blame, theres no accountability. No more than if the wind knocks over a tree branch, it just happened
The denial of free will is an extraordinarily dangerous idea. I actually think its among the most dangerous ideas put forth by materialists who put forth a lot of dangerous ideas. And the reason is that the denial of free will is the core of totalitarianism. Totalitarianism entails reducing human beings to livestock, and then to hurting them and culling them as you see fit. Hitler didnt gas six million Jews because they were individually culpable. There were no trials, they werent convicted of any crimes. They were basically treated like livestock that you wanted to get rid of.
And if there is no free will, its true that there is no guilt. But theres also no innocence And if you want to stop crime, you can do it very efficiently by just imprisoning people who might commit crimes. Why wait to prove their guilt? Its much more efficient.
Note: In Minority Report (2002), starring Tom Cruise, In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
Joshua Farris: Why not put them away or put them out of misery early on, right? So that we dont have to deal with it, yes. Yes, right.
Michael Egnor: Nobody puts a coyote raiding their chicken coop on trial. They just shoot it. Because coyotes dont have free will; coyotes just do what they do. So, yeah. Its deadly stuff. Its a deadly idea. And we dont realize how bad it is. Its not just an academic question.
Michael Egnor: Heres a question. Can you demonstrate Gods existence scientifically?
Joshua Farris: I guess it really goes back to a more fundamental question about what we mean by science and what science is Theres excellent work in natural theology being done today by philosophers who have made pretty valiant attempts to develop arguments that move in the direction of demonstrating Gods existence. And utilizing nature as a sort of independent source that we can derive our premises from, and develop logically airtight arguments that demonstrate Gods existence.
Im sympathetic to those proposals. The way that I approach natural theology is more along the lines of a kind of logic of discovery, from a vantage point of a pre-commitment to theism. In my case particular,ly Christian theism, that has a particular lens on the world, that does a better job of explaining certain things in the world.
Ultimately, theism provides better causal explanation for, say, consciousness and the implications following from consciousness, as we were just discussing. Seems to me that the various properties and powers that follow from consciousness lend themselves to all sorts of theistic implications. And this is why many scientists want to get away from those consequences. And so they have to effectively eliminate the conscious-self, the free willing-self, in order to avoid those implications to theism.
Michael Egnor: The definition of science that I like and think works the best comes really from the classical philosophers: Science is the systematic study of effects according to their causes. So it has three characteristics: Its systematic. So its not just hunches and occasionally doing stuff, but actually sit down and studying it. Its a study of effects of things in nature as they are. And the study is focused on the causes of those effects and the natural science, which would include theology, ethics and music and all sorts of things. Natural science would be the systematic study of natural effects according to their causes.
There are effects in nature that have extra-natural causes. The Big Bang was the beginning of nature. Whatever caused the Big Bang was outside of nature. I think that singularities at the core of black holes are extra-natural things. They arent defined in physics, theyre outside of physics.
Joshua Farris: But they would still be within the domain of science, according to your definition?
Michael Egnor: Of course. Because singularities are solutions to the field equations of relativity that blow up, that basically go to infinity because something is divided by zero. That is, if you actually do the equations, the number becomes infinitely large, and thats a singularity.
Mathematically thats not defined. Division by zero is not considered a defined function in mathematics. And so singularities within physics, arent defined. Their effects are defined.
So we can know a singularity by its effects, but we cant know what it is because its not defined. If you look at the classical ways of knowing God, there are three ways that God can be known. We cant know him in himself as he actually is, at least not in this life. But we can know him by what he is not. We can know him by his effects in the world, and we can know him by analogy, which was St. Thomas
Joshua Farris: Thats very Thomistic of you.
Michael Egnor: Yes, yes. Thats classic St. Thomas. But he got a lot from Boethius. And the interesting thing is that, if you look at the way science handles singularities, its the same three. It knows singularities by what they are not. They dont have dimensions. They dont have temperature or color or things like that. Theyre known by their effects in the world. They gave rise to the Big Bang. Theyre at the core of black holes. And we can know them by analogy. Singularities are often depicted as depressions, in like a stretched rubber membrane. If theres rubber membrane in spacetime, a singularity is an infinitely deep depression in that membrane.
So science deals with singularities just the same way as St. Thomas said we had to deal with God. Now, thats not to say that singularities are God. Its saying is that science can deal with things outside of nature. And does all the time.
In fact, numbers are outside of nature. The number four is not a natural thing. There are groups of four things in nature. There are four trees in my front yard. Four tires on a car. But the number four is not a thing in nature. It has no location, it has no weight. Its not a natural thing. But its invoked in science constantly.
I think the supernatural can cause things in nature. It does all the time, if we define things that are undefined in the natural world as supernatural.
Joshua Farris: So that wouldnt fit very well within the confines of what most are considering methodological naturalism.
Michael Egnor: But methodological naturalism is bad science; its ideological science. Its saying that no matter what the cause of something is, were going to exclude anything thats not a natural cause, which is junk science. Thats basically saying we dont care what the real cause is. Were going to impose this structure on it, knowing that that could very well lead to causes that arent real. As I said, the definition of science is the systematic study of natural effects according to causes. Any cause, whether its natural or supernatural, I think, is the best definition of science. If the supernatural cause is the cause, then you go for it.
Joshua Farris: So on your definition, were basically studying causes and effects. And some are natural and some are supernatural. The study of revelation or the theological study of revelation, on that definition would be considered science as well?
Michael Egnor: Yeah. And the classical philosophers did consider it. I mean, theology was the queen of the sciences. And the only thing that distinguishes science as we know it today is that its the study of natural effects. We restrict our study to effects in nature, and thats what natural science is. But we dont restrict our study of causes of those natural effects to nature. The causes can be anything, wherever the evidence leads.
Joshua Farris: So as a practicing scientist, do you think that there is still today, at least in the academic practice of science, is there any place, or at least any robust place for theology to enter into the scientific discussions?
Michael Egnor: Theology is in all scientific discussions. Its everywhere, either acknowledged or denied.A very good example of this: I am of the very firmly held opinion that all proofs of Gods existence, all of them, are scientific proofs. Many theists say, well, science cant really prove God. But all genuine proofs of the existence of God proof meaning inferential lines of reasoning are scientific proofs. The reason is that, in St. Thomass view, and I think hes right on this, existence is absolutely distinct from essence.
That something exists is a different thing than what that something is. And therefore you cant demonstrate the existence of anything, the that-ness of anything, by just describing the what-ness of it. Which means, for example, that the ontological proof is not valid. And St. Thomas famously rejected that proof, because theres no existence in it. Theres no evidence. Its a formal logical proof and formal logical proofs cannot prove anything outside of formal logical things. And God is not a formal logical thing, hes an existing thing.
Note: One of the most fascinating arguments for the existence of an all-perfect God is the ontological argument. While there are several different versions of the argument, all purport to show that it is self-contradictory to deny that there exists a greatest possible being. Thus, on this general line of argument, it is a necessary truth that such a being exists; and this being is the God of traditional Western theism. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
So you have to have evidence to prove the existence of anything. So to prove existence at the end, you have to start with the existence of something. And thats inductive proof. When you start with evidence and then use some formal system to arrive at inference to best explanation, thats an inductive line of reasoning. And science is just inductive reasoning applied to nature. So the proofs of Gods existence are also inductive proofs, and they have the same structure as scientific proofs.
A very good example is the Prime Mover argument. The Prime Mover argument, basically, is that change exists in nature. And that it is not possible to have an infinite regress of instrumental causes in a system of change, without having at the foundation of this instrumental series of causes, an unmoved mover, a Prime Mover that is not itself moved. Thats a scientific argument. Because you start with the empirical observation of change in nature, and you reason through a formal way to what must be true of the cause of that change.
Thats the same thing as is done in evolutionary biology, looking at nature, reasoning back to what causes the change in species. Same thing thats done in physics. What causes this radioactive isotope to emit that electron? So I believe all valid proofs of Gods existence are scientific theories.
So when you say, can science be done without theology? At least if one is talking about natural theology, science and natural theology are completely intertwined.
Joshua Farris: Some day Id love to chat more about how we can develop fruitful research programs to integrate the two a bit more consciously and explicitly in print. So the question seems obvious, but I just dont see a lot of robust theological and scientific engagement taking place right now. And how it is that theology can actually offer any sort of voice in the contemporary scientific conversations.
Or how the scientific practitioner can consciously bring God into the mix and supply a logic that gives us a fruitful way of discerning where God is acting in the present world right now. Its hard for me to see that actually taking place where theology has largely been marginalized in the higher ed systems, at least in the US. And its almost well, its just almost irrelevant these days. And its certainly irrelevant in scientific discussions.
Michael Egnor: Well, its irrelevant, but it even goes further. If you are a practicing scientist and you bring theology into your science, youre unemployed. Thats it. I have a friend whos a leading biologist, who is a devout Christian. And I talked to him one time about intelligent design and all of that. And he said he would give anything to be involved in it because he really believes in it. But if I ever said a word publicly, I would never get another grant.
And hes exactly right. He would be totally canceled. So in that sense, theology is already in science, in a negative sense. That if you make any appeal to God, youre done.
Michael Egnor: So theres no separating theology and science. I mean, if you look at, for example, even Aquinas Five Ways. That the first way by change, the second way by causation, the third by contingent existence, the fourth by degrees of perfection, and then the fifth by regularity in nature. All of them are scientific statements. Every single one. Change. How do you account for change? There has to be an Unmoved Mover. Thats a scientific line of reasoning
Michael Egnor: And punishing people for bringing them up, in a sense, is theology in science, only its negative theology But that is theology in science its just used as a cudgel instead of as an aid.
Joshua Farris: Right. And thats why it is difficult right now to articulate in our contemporary situation, how theology can be the queen of the sciences. If its not functioning in any sort of robust way in how science is conducted and how the conclusions are interpreted.
Michael Egnor: Well, it depends on how you define theology. If you define theology as including the philosophical and methodological exclusion of inference to God from scientific work I think that is a theological statement. Theology can be negative. If you define theology as including that, then all science nowadays is theological, in a sense that you better not talk about God.
So theres no escaping it. Theres just no escaping God. Theres no escaping inference to God. You can choose to refer to God in your work, or you could choose to refuse to refer to God and to punish people who do, but its all theology.
Joshua Farris: I hadnt thought about that. Thats a very Thomistic way of thinking. There are classical reformed ways of thinking about science and theology that depart from Thomas. Herman Dooyeweerd, the systematic theologian, would say that theology is one science among other sciences, and philosophy serves the foundational role and philosophies foundational to all the sciences. So theres some demarcating role thats given to philosophy as a way of demarcating the different disciplines and how we parse out the different disciplines
Michael Egnor: Heres a good, I think, retort to that notion that philosophy is the foundation of sciences rather than theology. Without theology, there is no real ground for believing in the existence of anything outside of your mind and the validity of your concepts and the validity of your perceptions. I mean solipsism makes just as much sense from a purely philosophical perspective as does the ordinary way of looking at the world. How do you know that I really exist? That what youre listening to is coming from a person like you.
At least in theology, the inference is that God is not evil. That God wouldnt deceive you like that. In philosophy, how do you know? So I dont see how philosophy can be the ground How can you study the natural world if philosophy offers no actual proof that the natural world even exists?
Joshua Farris: I guess you could take philosophy as being rooted in a reliabilist understanding and common sense. And so thats the starting point.
Michael Egnor: Right. You have to believe that reason is reliable. And in my view, that cannot be grounded in itself. It has to be grounded elsewhere. Obviously, the only other elsewhere on tap would be God. So theology, I think really is the queen of the sciences. And frankly, all scientists practice it. I mean, every scientist is a theologian of sorts.
Joshua Farris: At least implicitly, despite what they might say, right?
Michael Egnor: Right implicitly. Obviously, very few of them are the least bit aware of it because scientists are, almost without exception, the worst philosophers on earth. Theyre terrible philosophers. And they do things all the time that they dont understand.
Here are the previous segments:
A neurosurgeon and a philosopher debate mind vs. body. Philosopher Joshua Farris defends controversial Cartesian dualism. Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor critiques it but thinks it may account for near-death experiences. They both critique emergentism, the view that the mind, while not merely what the brain does, emerges from the brain and has no separate existence or origin.
How does dualism understand personal identity? Both neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and theology professor Joshua Harris acknowledge weaknesses in their philosophies understanding of personal identity. Aristotelianism, in Egnors view, interprets the mind brain relationship better but Cartesianism, in Harriss view, interprets personal identity better.
How does dualism understand personal identity? Both neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and theology professor Joshua Harris acknowledge weaknesses in their philosophies understanding of personal identity. Aristotelianism, in Egnors view, interprets the mind brain relationship better but Cartesianism, in Harriss view, interprets personal identity better.
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How did Descartes come to make such a mess of dualism? Mathematician Ren Descartes strictly separated mind and matter in a way that left the mind very vulnerable. After Descartes started the idea that only minds have experiences, materialist philosophers dispensed with mind, then puzzled over how matter has experiences.
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Dualism is best option for understanding the mind and the brain. Theories that attempt to show that the mind does not really exist clearly dont work and never did. Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor reviews the mind-brain theories for East Meets West: Theology Unleashed. He think dualism makes the best sense of the evidence.
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The Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) said it opened an online registration site for Medical Korea 2022, the nations largest healthcare conference, at http://www.medicalkorea2022.kr.
Medical Korea 2022, hosted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and organized by the KHIDI, will run in-person and online events.
The in-person conference will occur at Coex ASEM Ballroom in Gangnam-gu,Seoul, from March 10-11 and the virtual one from March 10-15.
The healthcare event will provide an opportunity for leading healthcare experts to share their insights and prospects of the global healthcare industry, KHIDI said.
Under the theme of Global Healthcare, a New Leap Forward, Medical Korea 2022 will have six sessions global healthcare, smart elderly care services, digital healthcare future strategy forum, cooperation for co-prosperity between Medical Korea and the global healthcare industry, possibilities and the future of convergence and overseas expansion model of the health industry, and global healthcare policy and management forum.
Renowned scholars are joining the event.
Mauro Guillen, author of 2030: How Todays Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything and dean of the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, will deliver his keynote speech.
Daniel Kraft, faculty chair for Medicine of the Singularity University, and other health experts will discuss strategies for the global healthcare industrys growth in the post-Covid-19 era, KHIDI said.
Various side events include a seminar on a new metaverse-based global healthcare strategy.
Korean health companies will attend business meetings in-person while foreign buyers can join online, according to KHIDI.
The event site will have digital healthcare showrooms using VR and AR technology to showcase advanced technologies of Korean healthcare companies, it added.
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