We really don't know anything about life elsewhere in the universe so even university-trained scientists often try to WISH it into existence.
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Without free will, no one is innocent. Who asks cattle on the way to the abattoir if they are guilty or innocent?
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Call me a nitpicker: As a computer engineer, I must say, computers cannot predict the future.
In his documentary on UFOs, Stephen Greer certainly gets one thing right: Consciousness doesn’t fit into conventional science inquiry.
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Despite claims, NDEs are radically different from any mental experience caused by brain impairment.
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On board, the plane will be cleaner but also leaner. Expect to wear a mask and snack before you go.
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The most successful startups of today aren’t as profitable as those founded 20 to 50 years ago. Something is terribly wrong with the current startup system.
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Numbers can frighten or enlighten. The secret is making them explain themselves. Here’s a quick primer.
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A programming language creates a middle space between the way humans think and the way computers think. What's the best compromise point?
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Stephen Hawking was a genius in theoretical physics but he did not know much about computers and his fears of an AI takeover were unfounded.
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Contrary to Steven Novella's claims, cosmological singularities refute materialism. Kurt Gödel can explain
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Why do men see themselves as “fathers” but male gorillas don’t? Proposed answers from evolutionary psychology are hopelessly inadequate.
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Alex Garland departs from conventional sci-fi themes to create a thought-provoking film, packed with action and based on a challenging underlying philosophy.
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Rejecting evolutionary psychology means realizing that we cannot both claim to represent “Science!” and refuse to be bound by its standards.
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Dawkins thinks we didn’t evolve so as to understand consciousness. But that our odd situation points nowhere. Isn’t all this past its sell-by date?
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The United States has formally accused China of both funding and operating cells of hackers who infiltrate research labs working on responses to COVID-19.
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Thanks to economists, during the economic crisis that began in 2007, the President, Congress, and Federal Reserve did not repeat the errors of the 1930s.
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Turing thought that computers could be got to think. Thus he had to address Lovelace’s objection from a century earlier, that they could not be creative.
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Many high tech companies, including Microsoft, are headquartered near the coast in the state of Washington. The executives must have been terrified when they read the headline: “Tuna Biting Off Washington Coast” But wait. Tuna are not chomping on Seattle beaches. The headline, meant to convey good news for fishermen, can be read that way of course. We use common sense to identify the intended meaning and the incorrect interpretation makes us smile. But AI has trouble doing this because it lacks common sense. To solve the problem of AI’s lack of common sense, Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen (1953–2018) poured big bucks into Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. “To make real progress in A.I., we have to overcome the Read More ›
There are the Spanish police drones flying around, enforcing lockdown orders. And Singapore’s robotic police dogs, enforcing social distance. Will they go away?
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