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AI consciousness and neuroscientifically plausible "seamless" mind-uploading
Masataka Watanabe, Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo's School of Engineering, examines a test for AI consciousness. He proposes it as part of a scientific approach to deciphering consciousness that leads to "seamless" mind uploading. Today, there is much debate on whether artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved consciousness. (1, 2) My short answer is probably not, but with dedicated substantial resources, AI will achieve consciousness at some point. So, what is consciousness? Could we ever tell whether it resides in AI? How can we build a conscious AI, and what would be the purpose of doing so?

The purpose of this article is to analyze the use of YouTube by the US military for the spreading of messages and information regarding their presence in Iraq, and, at the same time, to examine the presence on the same YouTube system of a large number of video clips showing members of the US military engaged in violent, anti-social activities. That these juxtaposing images of coalition forces in Iraq exist on the same video-sharing forum forces us to reconsider traditional notions of how `propaganda' is produced, distributed and received. In addition, the presence of dissonant material on video-sharing sites such as YouTube should lead us to consider the multi-faceted nature of such sites. This article is intended as a first step toward reconsidering the nature of propaganda in an era of online media, open-access video-sharing and simplified production and distribution.

Avian influenza (AI) has called for transnational policy making by member state governments and the EU as outbreaks of the disease have spread across state boundaries. The focus of this article is on the relationship between the UK and EU surrounding the AI case study from 2005 to early 2007. The analysis is informed by interviews conducted with officials based in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) who have been involved in projecting or `uploading' national policy preferences to the European Commission and, at the same time, accommodating or `downloading' the rules and regulations that have emanated mainly from the Standing Committee for Food Chain and Animal Health (SCFCAH) of the Commission. The article, therefore, adopts a dynamic view of Europeanization processes in order to analyse transnational policy making for AI outbreaks. The article shows that dynamic Europeanization processes are effective in conceptualizing and explaining transnational policy making for AI across the UK and EU levels.

Using the 2010 Hungarian media law as a case study, this article traces the process in which an issue in the domestic politics of a ('new') EU member state is transformed into a transnational political conflict. How and why do political actors 'upload' issues from the domestic to the EU level, specifically into the European parliamentary arena? How do others with conflicting interests resist such a change? The analytical framework is based on venue shopping, a concept hitherto mainly utilised in the context of interest group behaviour. Contestation around the Hungarian media law illustrates that a number of conditions related to the existing links of the uploading political actor with the new venue and the nature of the issue itself are necessary to make uploading a viable strategy. Adapted from the source document.

This article explores the potential for an online database to facilitate modes of environmental communication above and beyond the collection and display of scientific data. That database is Xeno-canto (https://www.xeno-canto.org), a website where users upload and share recordings of wild birds. I consider Xeno-canto as a platform for what Jonathan Bate calls 'ecopoetry', through a focus on one of Bate's key examples: the poet John Clare, a writer known for the close description of birds. In this multimodal project, I develop a dialogue between ecopoetry, as defined by Bate and enacted by Clare, and the architecture of the Xeno-canto platform. The project is multimodal in that it takes the form of a critical essay that works in tandem with a user account on Xeno-canto that I set up under the name 'John Clare'.

India is a densely populated country where traffic is a major issue in our country. We can see traffic accidents are increased day by day and becoming more pathetic nowadays. Even though the government are running so many campaigns to raise awareness in public but still we can't able to reduce the death rate due to road accident are not decreased at all. Main cause of the accident is a high speed, rash driving and mental pressure Some of the papers deals with how to track accidents before it could happen and alert the driver to maintain some speeds limit so that person can avoid an accident by taking early precaution to avoid the accident but this paper focuses on how to rescue person life by immediately admitted to a nearby hospital after meeting with an accident. the paper deals with analysing an image uploaded by the end-users once the image is uploaded into the module. once it is uploaded it should satisfy many criteria if these criteria are satisfied only then it continues the process otherwise it terminates the process .criteria to be satisfied to continue the execution one it is a recently uploaded image or it should not be downloaded image, second it is real or fake, third it should be major injury if it is a minor injury then it will terminate the process .these all things happen in the second module i.e. image processing. once the image processing is done it will track the exact location where the accident has met through GPSs send the exact address and ping to the ambulance to arrive at that exact location.

Cover -- Europeanization, European Integration and Financial Services -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- General Introduction: Linking Levels of Theory and Methodological Approaches -- Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Frameworks -- 1 Recognizing Civil Constitutions: Hegel and Kant as the Basis of Integration Theory? -- 2 Re-assessing European Integration Theory -- 3 Uploading, Downloading or Crossloading? Conceptualizing Europeanization and European Integration -- Europeanization and European Integration: A Historical Perspective -- 4 Europeanization and European Integration: Empirical and Historical Developments -- 5 Macro Uploading and Shared Beliefs: The Single European Act and Economic and Monetary Union -- 6 Micro Uploading: Sub-national Interests and Supranational Institutions -- Europeanization as Situation and Process: Synthesizing Theory and Methodology -- 7 Identifying Difference and Potential Shared Beliefs: Domestic Issues and Financial Services Regulation -- 8 Shared Beliefs and Micro and Macro Uploading -- 9 Macro Uploading and Supranational Institutions: Formulating the Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP) -- 10 Europeanization Impacts on Member State Financial Services: Case Studies of the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Poland -- 11 General Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The Bristol Accord, agreed at an EU Ministerial Informal meeting in December 2005, was the UK"s contribution to the emerging EU urban agenda. Although nominally positioned within contemporary European debates on sustainable urban development and linked to previous Ministerial Informals on urban policy, it can be seen as an example of the "uploading" of national policy to the EU policy arena. This paper argues that by drawing too closely on domestic policy agendas (as well as the very wide-ranging nature of the sustainable communities agenda) little has resulted from the Accord. This contrasts with the more sustained legacy of the Leipzig Charter, the 2007 successor agreement to the Bristol Accord which, while also an example of the uploading of national policy, has been more successful in tapping into the mainstream of EU urban policy. ; The paper is published by the European Journal of Spatial Development (EJSD). The previous version of the journal was host by Nordregio.

The European Employment Strategy (EES) has opened up new dynamics of Europeanization in the area of social policy. This article proposes to pay more attention to national core executives and their strategic use of the EES when considering its impact. Through core executives, the EES may not only affect domestic policy agendas, but also decision-making on reform. A comparative case study of activating employment policy reforms in the Netherlands and Germany evaluates expectations about how these agents upload and download ideas to and from the EU level. The findings indicate that uploading is facilitated by holding the EU presidency and a good fit with EES prescriptions, while downloading does not seem to depend on prior uploading and degree of fit but on other domestic factors. True strategic use of the EES by core executives following a sequence of uploading and downloading appears to be contingent on several contextual factors.

Dissertação de mestrado em Relações Internacionais ; This thesis aims to compare the process of Europeanization of Portuguese and Polish foreign and security policies. The theoretical framework of this study is formed by the Europeanization approach, in order to explore the dynamic processes of foreign and security policy change. Against the background of the reviewed Europeanization concept, with a particular focus on Portugal and Poland, the thesis explores the similarities and differences between both countries in order to understand the impact of their historical backgrounds and time of accession on their individual process of Europeanization. The comparison provides a perspective highlighting the impact of democratization at this stage. The Europeanization process is also analyzed while being divided into two main phases: 'downloading' (adaptation of the EU rules and norms) and 'uploading' (projection of their national preferences into the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) level). For Portugal, the 'downloading' stage explores the domestic adaptation and institutional changes and the 'uploading' phases reviews the three rotation Council Presidencies. In the case of Poland, the EU´s influence on national administrative structures during the 'downloading' process and promoting of the Eastern Dimension during the 'uploading' phase are studied. After this, the Europeanization process of both countries is compared by taking into account the different characteristics and spheres of interest, the challenges they faced, and the role of NATO in their foreign and security policies. The results of the comparison demonstrate that despite numerous differences, distinct ways of 'uploading' and national preferences, the Europeanization could be attained for both of them. Moreover, the analysis demonstrates that a proper uploading can only be obtained through an effective downloading process. Finally, the dissertation concludes that the projecting of national interests (vis-á-vis Ukraine in case of Poland and ...