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Chris Napthine donned the ape outfit to meet his daughter, Addie, on Friday July 18, but was shocked when he later received a 'snotty' text message.

More than 750 troops, 350 vehicles from the British Army’s 16 Air Assault Brigade in Colchester demonstrated their ability to respond at moment’s notice.

The fire service attended more than 1,500 incidents in June alone, new data has revealed.

Dog the Bounty Hunter star Duane Chapman's stepson, Gregory Zecca, has been put on a psychiatric hold after accidentally fatally shooting his thirteen-year-old son. 

When Harriet Barnsley woke up from a four-week coma following a devastating crash that killed her best friend, she had no idea what was wrong.

alternative_right shares a report from The Conversation: Greek philosophers may not have known about 21st-century technology, but their ideas about intellect and thinking can help us understand what's at stake with AI today. Although the English words "intellect" and "thinking" do not have direct counterparts in the ancient Greek, looking at ancient texts offers useful comparisons. In "Republic," for example, Plato uses the analogy of a "divided line" separating higher and lower forms of understanding. Plato, who taught in the fourth century BCE, argued that each person has an intuitive capacity to recognize the truth. He called this the highest form of understanding: "noesis." Noesis enables apprehension beyond reason, belief or sensory perception. It's one form of "knowing" something -- but in Plato's view, it's also a property of the soul. Lower down, but still above his "dividing line," is "dianoia," or reason, which relies on argumentation. Below the line, his lower forms of understanding are "pistis," or belief, and "eikasia," imagination. Pistis is belief influenced by experience and sensory perception: input that someone can critically examine and reason about. Plato defines eikasia, meanwhile, as baseless opinion rooted in false perception. In Plato's hierarchy of mental capacities, direct, intuitive understanding is at the top, and moment-to-moment physical input toward the bottom. The top of the hierarchy leads to true and absolute knowledge, while the bottom lends itself to false impressions and beliefs. But intuition, according to Plato, is part of the soul, and embodied in human form. Perceiving reality transcends the body -- but still needs one. So, while Plato does not differentiate "intelligence" and "thinking," I would argue that his distinctions can help us think about AI. Without being embodied, AI may not "think" or "understand" the way humans do. Eikasia -- the lowest form of comprehension, based on false perceptions -- may be similar to AI's frequent "hallucinations," when it makes up information that seems plausible but is actually inaccurate. Aristotle, Plato's student, sheds more light on intelligence and thinking. In "On the Soul," Aristotle distinguishes "active" from "passive" intellect. Active intellect, which he called "nous," is immaterial. It makes meaning from experience, but transcends bodily perception. Passive intellect is bodily, receiving sensory impressions without reasoning. We could say that these active and passive processes, put together, constitute "thinking." Today, the word "intelligence" holds a logical quality that AI's calculations may conceivably replicate. Aristotle, however, like Plato, suggests that to "think" requires an embodied form and goes beyond reason alone. Aristotle's views on rhetoric also show that deliberation and judgment require a body, feeling and experience. We might think of rhetoric as persuasion, but it is actually more about observation: observing and evaluating how evidence, emotion and character shape people's thinking and decisions. Facts matter, but emotions and people move us -- and it seems questionable whether AI utilizes rhetoric in this way. Finally, Aristotle's concept of "phronesis" sheds further light on AI's capacity to think. In "Nicomachean Ethics," he defines phronesis as "practical wisdom" or "prudence." "Phronesis" involves lived experience that determines not only right thought, but also how to apply those thoughts to "good ends," or virtuous actions. AI may analyze large datasets to reach its conclusions, but "phronesis" goes beyond information to consult wisdom and moral insight.

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The migrant initially told the Home Office that he left Iran 'illegally' and if he returned would be in danger of persecution because he was an ethnic and religious minority. This claim was dismissed.

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Three of the 15 injured in the smash, which happened in Greater Manchester at around 3pm on Monday, have sustained serious injuries, with one person said to be in a critical condition.

In 2025, social media has moved from self-expression to self-entrapment

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Hunter Biden is still very angry with actor George Clooney , who wrote a New York Times op-ed last July pushing then President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.

Cain Byrne, 20, who had never held a driving licence, mowed down 81-year-old Graham Slinn at 80mph after ignoring a red light. The driver inhaled nitrous oxide both before and after the collision.

Igor Hrushevsky, an ex-employee of Ukraine 's Ministry of Internal Affairs, was swimming in the pool of a residential complex called in Villajoyosa, south of Valencia , before he was found dead.

The $500 billion Stargate AI project announced by SoftBank and OpenAI at the White House six months ago has failed to complete a single data center deal and sharply scaled back its near-term plans. The venture, which originally pledged to invest $100 billion "immediately," now aims to build one small data center by year-end, likely in Ohio, according to WSJ. SoftBank and OpenAI have disagreed over crucial partnership terms, including site locations. OpenAI has proceeded independently, signing a deal with Oracle worth more than $30 billion annually starting within three years. That agreement totals 4.5 gigawatts of capacity and would consume power equivalent to more than two Hoover Dams. Combined with a smaller CoreWeave deal, OpenAI has secured nearly as much data center capacity as Stargate promised for this year. SoftBank invested $30 billion in OpenAI earlier this year as part of the infrastructure partnership plans.

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Dr Cat Jarman, 43, who has been dating the Earl for almost a year, issued a claim in the High Court against his third wife, Countess Karen Spencer, in October.

79-year-old Luisa Yu, from the Philippines, who has spent six decades visiting every country in the world has revealed her three favourite destinations. 

Cyber security experts have issued a warning to those using Amazon about a rising scam involving Airbnb gift cards - with this type of crime expected to increase over the summer.

As millions of Brits head to Spain this summer, language experts are urging holidaymakers to brush up on their Spanish to avoid making some seriously awkward mistakes. 

Malcolm-Jamal Warner has kept his personal life out of the spotlight in recent years, prior to his shock death at the age of 54.

Maude - the daughter of actress Leslie Mann and filmmaker Judd Apatow - has embraced nepotism with her upcoming project, casting several stars who have had a leg up.