Biotech companies agree to ban or voluntarily refrain from doing that which can’t yet be done but conduct the very experiments necessary to learn how to do it.
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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor agrees; the image of storing and erasing memories is popular due to computer technology but not relevant to memory.
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The calling is to be involved, to be on the site, with your hands in the work, and building with theological clarity and human dignity at the center.
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Neuroplasticity is a very interesting and important area of research. But the careless and casual attribution of unexpected mental states to it is junk science.
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In March of 2026, the horror novel Shy Girl was pulled from publication after the author was suspected of using AI to help her write it.
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The question isn’t whether AI will harm us. The question is actually whether we will remain human.
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Will the bubble pop or is the pullback another false alarm? In any case, the extraordinary claims will likely continue and perhaps even accelerate as AI startups push their IPOs and companies become fearful of the bubble popping.
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Many commentators seem to have forgotten Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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Swarm intelligence enables the colony to converge on the shortest and most efficient path to food without any individual being especially smart.
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One unusual feature is that driver attention is monitored and inattentive drivers can have the self-driving mode suspended.
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Ideas like love, beauty, and so on are part of the human experience because humans sense them; they don’t always agree on the particulars, but they intuitively know that these ideas exist.
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Technology has a history but the human mind does not. We see it where we see it.
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Tabloid subeditors often write of sick babies struggling to stay alive as being ‘brave’, but babies are too young to fully understand heroic virtue or practise it.
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AI displays very impressive horizontal integration (integrating existing concepts) but not vertical integration (entirely new inventions).
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Unfortunately, some of them spend a lot of time trying to discredit people who are willing to look at these questions.
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Last week’s puzzle is also easier to solve if we observe some of the patterns that number theory reveals.
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Some of the Neanderthals’ practices around skulls suggest that they followed a belief system.
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Spielberg fails to understand that obsession is not love, and if David were really human, he would know that.
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The simpler explanation, he says, is that percepts, perceptions travel through axons. Conceptions don’t travel through axons because they’re not material.
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A misguided article in Popular Mechanics gave neurosurgeon Michael Egnor a chance to shed light on a unique fact about people with split brains here.
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