The current intersection of technologies leads to two competing visions of the computer – both deeply influenced by the concept of human computer symbiosis – and to very different conceptions of human thinking.
Once again, the difference may flow from the clashing conceptions of human nature.
There will always be more questions than answers when modern medicine and conceptions of human rights collide with ancient religious practices.
The plurality of modern political ideologies implies a plurality of different conceptions of human nature – which implies, in turn, that the conservative understanding of human nature is contested.
The way to respond to despotism and the Communist threat, he concluded, was to "have the courage and self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society.
Political philosophers have long known that the ideologies are rooted in different conceptions of human nature — a conflict of visions so fundamental as to align opinions on dozens of issues that would seem to have nothing in common.
