Misplaced Pages

#784215

88-458: Herbie, the Love Bug is a sentient 1963 Volkswagen Beetle racing car which has been featured in several Walt Disney motion pictures starting with The Love Bug in 1969. He has a mind of his own, being capable of driving himself and often becoming a serious contender in auto racing . Throughout most of the films he is distinguished by red, white, and blue racing stripes from the front to

176-471: A 30-minute Super 8 version of the first Evil Dead movie, titled Within the Woods (1978), which was initially used to attract investors. He and Raimi got together with family and friends to begin working on The Evil Dead (1981). While featuring as the protagonist, Campbell also had participation with the production of the movie, receiving a co-executive producer credit. Raimi wrote, directed, and edited

264-685: A Bat? ", consciousness can refer to the ability of any entity to have subjective perceptual experiences, or as some philosophers refer to them, " qualia "—in other words, the ability to have states that it feels like something to be in. Some philosophers, notably Colin McGinn , believe that the physical process causing consciousness to happen will never be understood, a position known as " new mysterianism ". They do not deny that most other aspects of consciousness are subject to scientific investigation but they argue that qualia will never be explained. Other philosophers, such as Daniel Dennett , argue that qualia

352-444: A NASCAR driver and Herbie builds a relationship with his new love interest, a Volkswagen New Beetle (which is revealed to be sentient as well). Herbie has been the central character of five theatrical-release films, a made-for-TV movie, and a short-lived television series. A television series, Herbie, the Love Bug , was aired in 1982 on CBS . Dean Jones reprised his role as Jim Douglas for it. Five episodes were made. In 2017, it

440-411: A Type 1 Beetle, complete with Herbie livery, in every showroom. There are various model errors in this film, such as the later "big window" (post-1964) Beetles being used. Also of note is the "cut-n-shut" engine cover after the warehouse break-in. The Beetle used was a late model, having a more bulbous flat-bottomed lid with an earlier rounded bottom edge welded on. After the success of The Love Bug , it

528-734: A book tour across the United States and Europe. Campbell maintained a weblog on his official website, where he posted mainly about politics and the movie industry. However, the website has since been deleted. Since 2014, the Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival, narrated and organized by Campbell, was held in the Muvico Theater in Rosemont, Illinois . The first festival was originally from August 21 to 25, 2014, presented by Wizard World, as part of

616-508: A cameo role with the expectation he would reprise that role in Army of Darkness 2 . The next year, the comedy metal band Psychostick released a song titled "Bruce Campbell" on their album IV: Revenge of the Vengeance that pays a comedic tribute to his past roles. Campbell worked as an executive producer for the 2023 movie Evil Dead Rise . Other than cinema, Campbell has appeared in

704-555: A gang of con artists from stealing a source of ancient Inca gold. After returning from Mexico, Herbie is taken back by Jim, who opens a driving school in the TV series Herbie, the Love Bug . In this continuing comic-drama Jim meets a woman named Susan MacLane and her three kids, Julie, Matthew, and Robbie, who become friends with him and Herbie. Businessman Randy Bigelow aims to get Susan back; they had broken up during their wedding. His schemes come to nought as Jim and Susan are married in

792-424: A hood-mounted Carello fog light that concealed a small camera which allowed the rear seat driver to view the street and sit lower. In the original film, The Love Bug , the racing stripes differ from those in later movies; they do not cover Herbie's valances or louvers and the blue is a lighter shade. Also, Herbie features color-keyed running boards, while in later films the running boards are standard black. During

880-487: A machine conscious in exactly the way humans are is not one that we are equipped to take on." Indeed, leading AI textbooks do not mention "sentience" at all. Digital sentience is of considerable interest to the philosophy of mind . Functionalist philosophers consider that sentience is about "causal roles" played by mental states, which involve information processing. In this view, the physical substrate of this information processing does not need to be biological, so there

968-474: A number of television series. He featured in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. a boisterous science fiction comedy western created by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse that played for one season. He played a lawyer turned bounty hunter who was trying to hunt down John Bly, the man who killed his father. He featured in the television series Jack of All Trades , set on a fictional island occupied by

SECTION 10

#1732790325785

1056-571: A parody of his career My Name Is Bruce (2007). Campbell is known for frequent collaborations with the aforementioned Raimi, his brother Ted , Josh Becker , and Scott Spiegel . Bruce Lorne Campbell was born in Royal Oak, Michigan , on June 22, 1958, the son of advertising executive and college professor Charles Newton Campbell and homemaker Joanne Louise (née Pickens). He is of English and Scottish ancestry, and has an older brother named Don and an older half-brother named Michael. His father

1144-489: A sample of the original metal. Horace, influenced by the narcissism of his former owner, Simon Moore, Hank's rival, crushes Herbie in an alleyway. Hank buries Herbie, but Jim Douglas' return sets Hank and his friends to rebuild the Volkswagen (with the help of the repentant Dr. Stumpfel) to take on Simon and Horace in a final, one-on-one showdown race. In several years leading up to Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) , Herbie

1232-556: A series based upon the Evil Dead series that began his career. Ash vs Evil Dead began airing on Starz on October 31, 2015, and was renewed by the cable channel for second and third seasons, before being cancelled. In January 2019, Travel Channel announced a new version of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! reality series, with Campbell serving as host and executive producer. The 10-episode season debuted on June 9, 2019. Campbell

1320-501: Is a minimalistic way of defining consciousness, which otherwise commonly and collectively describes sentience plus further features of the mind and consciousness, such as creativity , intelligence , sapience , self-awareness , and intentionality (the ability to have thoughts about something). These further features of consciousness may not be necessary for sentience, which is the capacity to feel sensations and emotions. According to Thomas Nagel in his paper " What Is It Like to Be

1408-547: Is also pursued by a pair of jewel thieves, Max and Quincy, who have hidden the stolen E’toile de Joie diamond in his gas tank. After rescuing Diane and Giselle from a crash into a river, Jim and Wheely drive Herbie to victory, overtaking their main rival, Bruno von Stickle ( Eric Braeden ), on the ceiling of the Monaco tunnel. In Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) , Jim has retired from racing and leaves Herbie to his nephew, Pete Stancheck ( Stephen W. Burns ), who plans to enter him in

1496-628: Is concerned that AI sentience would be particularly easy to deny, and that if achieved, humans might nevertheless continue to treat AI systems as mere tools. He notes that the linguistic behaviour of LLMs is not a reliable way to assess whether they are sentient. He suggests to apply theories of consciousness, such as the global workspace theory , to the algorithms implicitly learned by LLMs, but noted that this technique requires advances in AI interpretability to understand what happens inside. He also mentions some other pathways that may lead to AI sentience, such as

1584-494: Is entitled, at a minimum, to protection from unnecessary suffering , though animal-rights advocates may differ on what rights (e.g., the right to life) may be entailed by simple sentience. Sentiocentrism describes the theory that sentient individuals are the center of moral concern. Gary Francione also bases his abolitionist theory of animal rights, which differs significantly from Singer's , on sentience. He asserts that, "All sentient beings, humans or nonhuman, have one right:

1672-534: Is featured as a voice actor for several video games. He provides the voice of Ash in the four games based on the Evil Dead movies series: Evil Dead: Hail to the King , Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick , Evil Dead: Regeneration and Evil Dead: The Game . He has expressed his intent to return to the role in an upcoming Evil Dead animated series. He also provided the voice of Ash in Dead by Daylight . Despite

1760-523: Is found in an abandoned garage and carried to Crazy Dave's scrapyard where he is to be junked until he is bought by Maggie Peyton ( Lindsay Lohan ), who dreams of racing in NASCAR . Maggie quickly discovers that Herbie is sentient, upgrades its engine and bodywork, and enters various races, from a demolition derby to the final race of the Nextel Cup Series . In the end of the film, Maggie becomes

1848-443: Is no theoretical barrier to the possibility of sentient machines. According to type physicalism however, the physical constitution is important; and depending on the types of physical systems required for sentience, it may or may not be possible for certain types of machines (such as electronic computing devices) to be sentient. The discussion on the topic of alleged sentience of artificial intelligence has been reignited in 2022 by

SECTION 20

#1732790325785

1936-560: Is not a meaningful concept. Regarding animal consciousness , the Cambridge Declaration of Consciousness , publicly proclaimed on 7 July 2012 at Cambridge University, states that many non-human animals possess the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states, and can exhibit intentional behaviors. The declaration notes that all vertebrates (including fish and reptiles) have this neurological substrate for consciousness, and that there

2024-422: Is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" Richard D. Ryder defines sentientism broadly as the position according to which an entity has moral status if and only if it is sentient. In David Chalmer's more specific terminology, Bentham is a narrow sentientist , since his criterion for moral status is not only the ability to experience any phenomenal consciousness at all, but specifically

2112-402: Is related to the concept of ahimsa , non-violence toward other beings. In some forms of Buddhism, plants, stones and other inanimate objects are considered to be 'sentient'. In Jainism many things are endowed with a soul, jīva , which is sometimes translated as 'sentience'. Some things are without a soul, ajīva , such as a chair or spoon. There are different rankings of jīva based on

2200-467: Is strong evidence that many invertebrates also have it. David Chalmers argues that sentience is sometimes used as shorthand for phenomenal consciousness , the capacity to have any subjective experience at all, but sometimes refers to the narrower concept of affective consciousness , the capacity to experience subjective states that have affective valence (i.e., a positive or negative character), such as pain and pleasure. The sentience quotient concept

2288-429: Is whether the way these noxious stimuli are processed within the brain leads to a subjective experience of pain. To address that, researchers often look for behavioral cues. For example, "if a dog with an injured paw whimpers, licks the wound, limps, lowers pressure on the paw while walking, learns to avoid the place where the injury happened and seeks out analgesics when offered, we have reasonable grounds to assume that

2376-664: The Chicago Comicon . The second festival was from August 20 to 23, 2015, with guests Tom Holland and Eli Roth . The third festival took place over four days in August 2016. Guests of the event were Sam Raimi , Robert Tapert and Doug Benson . Campbell married Christine Deveau in 1983; they had two children before divorcing in 1989. He met costume designer Ida Gearon while working on Mindwarp . They married in 1991. They reside in Jacksonville, Oregon . Campbell

2464-656: The Evil Dead series, notably having cameo appearances in the director's Spider-Man film series . Campbell also joined the cast of Raimi's movie Darkman and The Quick and the Dead , though having no actual screen time in the latter movie's theatrical version. In March 2022, Campbell was announced to have a cameo in Raimi's Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . Campbell often performs quirky roles, such as Elvis Presley for

2552-464: The Jim Carrey drama The Majestic and the 2005 Disney movie Sky High . Campbell had a major voice role for the 2009 animated adaptation of the children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs , and a supporting voice role for Pixar 's Cars 2 . Campbell produced the 2013 remake of The Evil Dead , along with Raimi and Rob Tapert, appearing in the movie's post-credits scene in

2640-567: The Panama Canal during filming in 1979. The Herbie name is only mentioned three times in the film by the garage owner, other than the two times Herbie honks his horn at Paco trying to say his name when Paco couldn't understand what he was saying. Some of these Herbie cars were recycled for Herbie, the Love Bug in 1982. One of the actual film cars used with its flip wheel chassis in the bullfighting scenes now resides in Sydney. Another one

2728-672: The USA Network series Burn Notice (2007–2013) and reprised his role as Ash for the Starz series Ash vs. Evil Dead (2015–2018). He also appeared in The Escort (2015). Campbell directed, produced, and featured in the documentaries Fanalysis (2002) and A Community Speaks (2004); co-wrote, directed, produced, and featured in the movie Man with the Screaming Brain (2005); and directed, produced, and featured in

Herbie - Misplaced Pages Continue

2816-810: The Volo Auto Museum in Illinois and two in California from the NASCAR racing segment, a fully motorized version at the Peterson Automotive Museum and a "personality car" at the hobby store Electric Dreams. Sentience In Asian religions, the word "sentience" has been used to translate a variety of concepts. In science fiction , the word "sentience" is sometimes used interchangeably with " sapience ", " self-awareness ", or " consciousness ". Some writers differentiate between

2904-466: The brain emulation of sentient animals. a. Quote: "The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing

2992-449: The 2009 movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs , the voice of Rod "Torque" Redline in Cars 2 , the voice of Himcules in the 2003 Nickelodeon TV series My Life as a Teenage Robot , and the voice of Fugax in the 2006 movie The Ant Bully . He has a voice in the online MOBA game, Tome: Immortal Arena in 2014. Campbell also provided voice-over and motion capture for Sgt. Lennox in

3080-468: The AI system excels at this, providing answers to challenging topics about the nature of emotions , generating Aesop -style fables on cue, and even describing its alleged fears. Nick Bostrom considers that while LaMDA is probably not sentient, being very sure of it would require understanding how consciousness works, having access to unpublished information about LaMDA's architecture, and finding how to apply

3168-648: The Brazil Grand Primeo. In the interim, Herbie befriends an orphan named Paco ( Joaquin Garay, III ) who gives the Volkswagen the nickname "Ocho" (due to the two digits in Herbie’s number "53" adding to 8). They wreak havoc on board the ship Sun Princess , prompting the overzealous Captain Blythe ( Harvey Korman ) to throw Herbie overboard. Herbie is rescued by Paco and disguised as a taxi, while they work to stop

3256-573: The EU and its member states to "pay full regards to the welfare requirements of animals". Nociception is the process by which the nervous system detects and responds to potentially harmful stimuli, leading to the sensation of pain . It involves specialized receptors called nociceptors that sense damage or threat and send signals to the brain. Nociception is widespread among animals, even among insects. The presence of nociception indicates an organism's ability to detect harmful stimuli. A further question

3344-601: The Exo Zombies mode of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare . In addition to acting and occasionally directing, Campbell has become a writer, starting with an autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor , published in June 2001. The autobiography was a successful New York Times Best Seller . It describes Campbell's career to date as an actor in low-budget movies and television, providing his insight into " Blue-Collar Hollywood ". The paperback version of

3432-555: The French in 1801. Campbell was also credited as co-executive producer, among others. The show was directed by Eric Gruendemann, and was produced by various people, including Sam Raimi . The show was broadcast for two seasons, from 2000 to 2001. He had a recurring role as "Bill Church Jr." based upon the character of Morgan Edge from the Superman comics on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman . From 1996 to 1997, Campbell

3520-729: The Marvel Zombie comics as his character, Ash Williams . He is featured in five comics, all in the series Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness . In them, he fights alongside the Marvel heroes against the heroes and people who have become zombies (deadites) while in search of the Necronomicon (Book of the Names of the Dead). Campbell also played as Coach Boomer in the movie “Sky High”. He has appeared in several of Raimi's movies other than

3608-522: The Monte Carlo racing stickers, and the silver gas cap were removed. Herbie still had the gray bucket seats, asymmetrical door mirror and Goodyear GT Radial racing tires and rims. The sunroof was the original light gray rather than the dark gray from Monte Carlo. The rust seen on the car in the movie was painted on some of the Herbies. The car that "walks the plank" in the movie was never recovered from

Herbie - Misplaced Pages Continue

3696-535: The Screaming Brain . Most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker 's The Complete Guide to Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking . In late 2016, Campbell announced that he would be releasing a third book, Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor, which will detail his life from where If Chins Could Kill ended. Hail to the Chin was released in August 2017, and accompanied by

3784-657: The Woods (1978). He has also featured in many low-budget cult movies , such as: Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002). Campbell had the main roles of the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993–1994) and Jack of All Trades (2000), and a recurring role as Autolycus, King of Thieves in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999) and Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–1999). He played Sam Axe on

3872-486: The ability to experience conscious states with negative affective valence (i.e. suffering). Animal welfare and rights advocates often invoke similar capacities. For example, the documentary Earthlings argues that while animals do not have all the desires and ability to comprehend as do humans, they do share the desires for food and water, shelter and companionship, freedom of movement and avoidance of pain. Animal-welfare advocates typically argue that any sentient being

3960-471: The absence of a direct equivalent of the neocortex in their brain, was used as an argument against sentience. Jennifer Jacquet suggests that the belief that fish do not feel pain originated in response to a 1980s policy aimed at banning catch and release . The range of animals regarded by scientists as sentient or conscious has progressively widened, now including animals such as fish, lobsters and octopus. Digital sentience (or artificial sentience) means

4048-495: The back bumper, a pearl white body, a racing-style number "53" on the front luggage compartment lid, doors, engine lid, and a yellow-on-black 1963 California license plate with the registration "OFP 857". In The Love Bug (1969), Herbie is bought from the showroom of Peter Thorndyke ( David Tomlinson ) by San Francisco socialite Mrs. Van Luit for her upstairs maid, but returns him shortly afterward due to reliability problems. Race car driver Jim Douglas ( Dean Jones ) purchases

4136-580: The basic right not to be treated as the property of others." Andrew Linzey , a British theologian , considers that Christianity should regard sentient animals according to their intrinsic worth, rather than their utility to humans. In 1997 the concept of animal sentience was written into the basic law of the European Union. The legally binding protocol annexed to the Treaty of Amsterdam recognises that animals are "sentient beings", and requires

4224-435: The book adds details about the reactions of fans during book signings: "Whenever I do mainstream stuff, I think they're pseudo-interested, but they're still interested in seeing weirdo, offbeat stuff, and that's what I'm attracted to". Campbell's next book Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way was published on May 26, 2005. The book's plot involves him (depicted in a comical way) as the main character struggling to make it into

4312-600: The car after he is accused of stealing him. Tennessee Steinmetz ( Buddy Hackett ), Jim's best friend, a mechanic and his housemate, names the car "Herbie" after his uncle, a middleweight boxer whose nose was shaped like the hood of a Volkswagen Beetle. Jim notices the car's unnatural performance levels and decides to take him auto racing, to great success. In addition, Jim pursues a romantic relationship with Carole Bennett ( Michele Lee ), an assistant in Thorndyke's showroom. Carole eventually sides with Jim, Tennessee, and Herbie. In

4400-489: The claims made about Google 's LaMDA ( Language Model for Dialogue Applications) artificial intelligence system that it is "sentient" and had a " soul ". LaMDA is an artificial intelligence system that creates chatbots —AI robots designed to communicate with humans—by gathering vast amounts of text from the internet and using algorithms to respond to queries in the most fluid and natural way possible. The transcripts of conversations between scientists and LaMDA reveal that

4488-589: The concept is related to the Bodhisattva , an enlightened being devoted to the liberation of others. The first vow of a Bodhisattva states, "Sentient beings are numberless; I vow to free them." Sentience has been a central concept in the animal rights movement, tracing back to the well-known writing of Jeremy Bentham in An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation : "The question

SECTION 50

#1732790325785

4576-715: The dog is indeed experiencing something unpleasant." Avoiding painful stimuli unless the reward is significant can also provide evidence that pain avoidance is not merely an unconscious reflex (similarly to how humans "can choose to press a hot door handle to escape a burning building"). Animals such as pigs , chickens , and fish are typically recognized as sentient. There is more uncertainty regarding insects , and findings on certain insect species may not be applicable to others. Historically, fish were not considered sentient, and their behaviors were often viewed as "reflexes or complex, unconscious species-typical responses" to their environment. Their dissimilarity with humans, including

4664-467: The effect of Herbie driving himself, Disney concocted a detailed system of sprockets and pulleys connected to a second steering column under the front seat for a rear seat driver. There was also a second set of pedal assemblies, clutch cables and a shifter extension. In The Love Bug , the rear seat driver sat low enough to see over the windshield but still out of the view of the camera. For Herbie Rides Again and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo , Disney installed

4752-405: The film, depending on the scene, the wheels change from standard VW wheels (although fitted with plain hubcaps with no VW logo) to specially widened wheels on the racing Herbies. During one scene (when Tennessee is hanging out of the window), the number "53" (a.k.a. "gumball") on the passenger-side door is missing. The door is also cut along the lower edge at an angle to enable the car to tilt over to

4840-665: The final El Dorado road race, Herbie is damaged and splits in two, but wins when the rear half (with Tennessee inside) beats Thorndyke's Apollo GT. Fully repaired, Herbie takes the newlywed Jim and Carole on their honeymoon. In Herbie Rides Again (1974) , Herbie is retired from racing and has been left to Tennessee's widowed aunt, Mrs. Steinmetz ( Helen Hayes ). Jim has entered racing circuits, Tennessee resides in Tibet . Mrs. Steinmetz and her displaced neighbor, Nicole Harris ( Stefanie Powers ), try to save her house from being bulldozed by real estate developer Alonzo Hawk ( Keenan Wynn ) with

4928-570: The fourth season of Homicide: Life on the Street . Campbell later played the part of a bigamous demon in The X-Files episode " Terms of Endearment ". He also featured as Agent Jackman in the episode " Witch Way Now? " of the WB series Charmed , as well as playing a state police officer in an episode of the short-lived series American Gothic titled "Meet The Beetles". Campbell co-featured in

5016-414: The fuel tank accessible on the right side behind the fender; the silver cap itself, however, was fake and added for the film's storyline. With the addition of the fuel filler, the antenna is now a retractable unit fitted on the front cowling, near the windshield wipers. Herbie has a roll cage again, and Monte Carlo racing stickers on his windows (one on the front window, two on the left back window, and one on

5104-471: The help of Herbie and Willoughby Whitfield ( Ken Berry ), Hawk's nephew. In Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) , Jim is reunited with Herbie and enters the Trans-France Race with his mechanic, Wheely Applegate ( Don Knotts ). Herbie soon falls in love with a sentient Lancia Scorpion named Giselle, while Jim develops a relationship with Giselle’s driver, Diane Darcy ( Julie Sommars ). Herbie

5192-600: The inclusion of his character "Ash Williams" in Telltale Games' Poker Night 2 , Danny Webber voices the character in the game, instead of Bruce Campbell. Campbell also provided voice talent in other titles such as Pitfall 3D: Beyond the Jungle , Spider-Man , Spider-Man 2 , Spider-Man 3 , and The Amazing Spider-Man . He provided the voice of main character Jake Logan for the PC game, Tachyon: The Fringe ,

5280-584: The mere ability to perceive sensations, such as light or pain, and the ability to perceive emotions , such as fear or grief . The subjective awareness of experiences by a conscious individual are known as qualia in Western philosophy . "Sentience" was first coined by philosophers in the 1630s for the concept of an ability to feel, derived from Latin sentiens (feeling). In philosophy, different authors draw different distinctions between consciousness and sentience. According to Antonio Damasio , sentience

5368-672: The movie Bubba Ho-Tep . Along with Bubba Ho-Tep , he played a supporting role in Maniac Cop and Maniac Cop 2 , and spoofed his career in the self-directed My Name is Bruce . Other mainstream movies for Campbell include supporting or featured roles in the Coen Brothers movie The Hudsucker Proxy , the Michael Crichton adaptation Congo , the movie version of McHale's Navy , Escape From L.A. (the sequel to John Carpenter 's Escape From New York ),

SECTION 60

#1732790325785

5456-456: The movie, while Rob Tapert produced. After an endorsement by horror author Stephen King , the movie slowly began to receive attention and offers for distribution. Four years after its original release, it became the most popular movie in the UK. It was then distributed in the United States, resulting in the sequels Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1992). Campbell was also drawn in

5544-401: The neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates." b. Quote: "Granted, these animals do not have all the desires we humans have; granted, they do not comprehend everything we humans comprehend; nevertheless, we and they do have some of

5632-615: The number of senses it has. Water, for example, is a sentient being of the first order, as it is considered to possess only one sense, that of touch. Sentience in Buddhism is the state of having senses. In Buddhism, there are six senses, the sixth being the subjective experience of the mind. Sentience is simply awareness prior to the arising of Skandha . Thus, an animal qualifies as a sentient being. According to Buddhism, sentient beings made of pure consciousness are possible. In Mahayana Buddhism, which includes Zen and Tibetan Buddhism ,

5720-416: The original blue switched to a dark navy. In addition, they were applied over the valances and louvers, and the front hood was recycled for the 1982 television series Herbie, the Love Bug . Herbie also received a hood-mounted Carello fog light, and the running boards were now the more conventional black. Additionally, Herbie was running on standard wheels yet again. Volkswagen also promoted the film by having

5808-480: The philosophical theory to the machine. He also said about LLMs that "it's not doing them justice to say they're simply regurgitating text", noting that they "exhibit glimpses of creativity, insight and understanding that are quite impressive and may show the rudiments of reasoning". He thinks that "sentience is a matter of degree". In 2022, philosopher David Chalmers made a speech on whether large language models (LLMs) can be conscious, encouraging more research on

5896-510: The present. He directed a number of episodes of Hercules and Xena , including the Hercules series finale. Campbell also obtained the main role of race car driver Hank Cooper for the Disney made-for-television remake of The Love Bug . Campbell had a critically acclaimed dramatic guest role as a grief-stricken detective seeking revenge for his father's murder in a two-part episode of

5984-420: The previous gray buckets.. In Herbie: Fully Loaded , Herbie, who in this film seemed to be able to show emotions through anthropomorphized expressions mimicking a face, went through several "costume changes" throughout the movie, changing his style dramatically from scene to scene. More than 30 different Herbies were used during the shooting of this film. Three original cars are known to be on display: one at

6072-538: The rear window). The hood-mounted Carello fog light returns with an added black cover sporting the company name. Herbie now has gray bucket seats instead of stitched seats. and an asymmetrical door mirror. There were a total of 9 VWs used in Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo . Many of them were recycled for use in Herbie Goes Bananas . In Herbie Goes Bananas , the hood-mounted light, the grey roll cage bar,

6160-578: The right on two wheels. One of the modified racing Herbies featured a Porsche 356 engine, brakes, and KONI shock absorbers. All Herbies in The Love Bug had the VW badges removed from the hood and featured plain non-VW hubcaps. The hood-mounted VW logo was replaced with a plain disc of the same diameter, colored to match the body. All VW logos were removed to avoid any trademark conflicts. In Herbie Rides Again , Herbie features revised racing stripes, with

6248-462: The same desires and do comprehend some of the same things. The desires for food and water, shelter and companionship, freedom of movement and avoidance of pain." Bruce Campbell Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known best for his role as Ash Williams in Sam Raimi 's Evil Dead horror series , beginning with the short movie Within

6336-412: The sea. It was tossed overboard from the "M.N. Coromuel" ferry ship (not The Sun Princess cruise ship). The car is somewhere between La Paz and Baja California . The car thrown overboard was not a proper car and had many wooden parts. Herbie Goes Bananas also featured the same later model door mirror as Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo . Herbie set a Guinness World Record as the first car to go through

6424-704: The sentience of artificial intelligences . The question of whether artificial intelligences can be sentient is controversial. The AI research community does not consider sentience (that is, the "ability to feel sensations") as an important research goal, unless it can be shown that consciously "feeling" a sensation can make a machine more intelligent than just receiving input from sensors and processing it as information. Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig wrote in 2021: "We are interested in programs that behave intelligently. Individual aspects of consciousness—awareness, self-awareness, attention—can be programmed and can be part of an intelligent machine. The additional project making

6512-471: The series finale. Hank Cooper ( Bruce Campbell ) becomes the owner of Herbie in The Love Bug , the 1997 made-for-television movie . In it, it's revealed Herbie was created by a German engineer named Dr. Gustav Stumpfel. As he was building Herbie a picture of Dr. Stumpfel's wife fell into a vat of molten metal, giving Herbie life. Stumpfel is duped into building Horace, an evil counterpart to Herbie, from

6600-495: The state-of-the-art vehicle." The concept of this planned series was later developed into Fast Layne without any Herbie references, making his future uncertain. Herbie's appearance remained consistent throughout the first four film entries as well as the 1982 television series. There were only minor, subtle changes. The 1997 TV movie and Herbie: Fully Loaded featured major overhauls in appearance, as there were different production crews working for Disney by this time. To create

6688-429: The subject. He suggested that current LLMs were probably not conscious, but that the limitations are temporary and that future systems could be serious candidates for consciousness. According to Jonathan Birch , "measures to regulate the development of sentient AI should run ahead of what would be proportionate to the risks posed by current technology, considering also the risks posed by credible future trajectories." He

6776-404: The television series Burn Notice , which was broadcast from 2007 to 2013 by USA Network . He portrayed Sam Axe , a beer-chugging, former Navy SEAL now working as an unlicensed private investigator and occasional mercenary with his old friend Michael Westen , the show's main character. When working undercover, his character frequently used the alias Chuck Finley, which Bruce later revealed

6864-462: The theoretical computational limit of the entire universe. On a logarithmic scale it runs from −70 up to +50. Eastern religions including Hinduism , Buddhism , Sikhism , and Jainism recognise non-humans as sentient beings. The term sentient beings is translated from various Sanskrit terms ( jantu, bahu jana, jagat, sattva ) and "conventionally refers to the mass of living things subject to illusion, suffering, and rebirth ( Saṃsāra )". It

6952-593: The voice of main character Jake Burton for the PlayStation game Broken Helix and the voice of Magnanimous for Megas XLR . Campbell voiced the pulp adventurer Lobster Johnson in Hellboy: The Science of Evil and has done voice-over work for the Codemaster's game Hei$ t , a game which was announced on January 28, 2010, to have been "terminated". He also provided the voice of The Mayor for

7040-460: The world of A-list movies. He later recorded an audio play adaptation of Make Love with fellow Michigan actors, including longtime collaborator Ted Raimi . This radio drama was released by the independent label Rykodisc and spans six discs with a six-hour running time. In addition to his books, Campbell also wrote a column for X-Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire , and comic book adaptations of his Man with

7128-468: Was a recurring guest actor of the television series Ellen as Ed Billik, who becomes Ellen's boss when she sells her bookstore in season four. He is also known for his supporting role as the recurring character Autolycus ("King of Thieves") on both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess , which reunited him with producer Rob Tapert. Campbell played Hercules / Xena series producer Tapert in two episodes of Hercules set in

7216-406: Was also an actor and director for local theater. Campbell began acting and making short Super 8 movies with friends as a teenager. After meeting future moviemaker Sam Raimi while the two attended Wylie E. Groves High School , they became good friends and collaborators. Campbell attended Western Michigan University and continued to pursue an acting career. Campbell and Raimi collaborated with

7304-538: Was displayed in the Cars of the Stars Motor Museum until its closure in 2011. Since then, its location remains unknown. Volkswagen ceased the sale of Beetles in the United States one year before the film's release. In The Love Bug television film there were some significant changes. The graphics used were copied from the 1974 Volkswagen of America decal kit, and the position on the front hood number "53"

7392-561: Was heavily endorsed by Volkswagen , which was in financial trouble at the time, when Beetle sales in North America were considerably lower than in previous decades. As such, the company insisted that the VW logos appear on Herbie. Both the hub cap VW logo and hood-mounted VW logo were reinstated at the company's request. In Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo , Herbie is again fitted with wide racing wheels ( Goodyear GT radials), and has an external fuel filler cap. Post-1967 Beetles did feature

7480-405: Was higher up. The racing stripes were different sizes, and the shade of blue reverted to the lighter version of the original 1968 movie. The sunroof was a solid white (vs. gray) and missing the racing stripes. The wheels were standard Beetle wheels, instead of the wider Goodyear GT Radial racing tires used in Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo and Herbie Goes Bananas , and the seats were regular instead of

7568-416: Was introduced by Robert A. Freitas Jr. in the late 1970s. It defines sentience as the relationship between the information processing rate of each individual processing unit (neuron), the weight/size of a single unit, and the total number of processing units (expressed as mass). It was proposed as a measure for the sentience of all living beings and computers from a single neuron up to a hypothetical being at

7656-443: Was reported that a new Herbie series was in development at Disney XD . The plot revolved around a child named Lili or Landon Reed, "part scientist, part entrepreneur, part daredevil" who realizes, "when his or her parents go missing, that they've secretly been working on a government project: a talking car named Herbie. He is the key to helping the kid reunite with his or her parents, but a gang of criminals also wants to get its paws on

7744-559: Was the name of one of his father's old co-workers. Campbell was the star of a 2011 Burn Notice made-for-television prequel focusing on Sam's Navy SEAL career, titled Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe . In 2014, Campbell played Santa Claus for an episode of The Librarians . Campbell played Ronald Reagan in season 2 of the FX original series Fargo . More recently Campbell reprised his role as Ashley "Ash" Williams in Ash vs Evil Dead ,

#784215