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Implant enables woman to control speech synthesizer with thoughts
The key benefit of the new system is that it is much faster than traditional methods, cutting the time from internal speech to audible speech to less than three seconds
At a Science Journal: Humanity Is Just So Doomed
Opinions differ as to the details of what will wipe us all out — or maybe not
Are Colleges Beyond Saving?
They need to rediscover the purpose of higher education
The Enduring Self and the Case for Substance Dualism
On our most recent podcast, philosophers make the case that if mind is illusion, so too is the scientific enterprise
Micro Softy 20: Which Bottle Holds the Deadly Fentanyl?
You can find out the answer, using advanced technology — but there is a price
75% of Scientists in Nature Survey Thinking About Leaving U.S.
But there is less to this "trend" than meets the eye, when we look more closely at the survey
How a Neurosurgeon Showed That Abstract Thought Is Immaterial
Wilder Penfield, one of the first neurosurgeons to split human brains in half to relieve epilepsy, found much more than a treatment
What Damaged Brains Tell Us About the Mind
They often provide mute evidence that the human mind is not simply the output of the brain
Terminator Genisys Review, Part 5: Too Many Terminators in Here!
The chaos created by tampering with the timeline of the franchise continues
Why Did Our Very Ancient Ancestors Collect Ball-Shaped Stones?
Over a million years ago, it seems that some of our ancestors hiked through valleys in East Africa, searching for volcanic spheres
AI Peer Review Called “Inevitable” by Some, “Disaster” by Others
The whole debate raises a question: How much original thought goes into peer review anyway? And what purpose does it ultimately serve?
Yes, the AI Stock Bubble Is a Bubble
It's unfolding the way a financial bubble typically does
How Our Expert Classes Have Torpedoed Public Trust
Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice
Can AlphaFold Handle Disordered Proteins? A Biophysicist Says Yes
Jed Macosko takes issue with Erik J. Larson’s assessment here at Mind Matters News that proteins with no fixed order are likely to stump AI
Chatbots Alone Together: “Let’s Skip the Small Talk …”
Did you know that humans empower AI bots to confer with each other in Gibberlink code? Nothing could go wrong with that, right?...
Monday Micro Softy 19: The “Bermuda Triangle”
Why does the strange triangle, rearranged, appear to have a bit of extra area?
How Fruit Flies, Bees, and Squirrels Beat Artificial Intelligence
AI researchers assume they are on the path to intelligence, yet intelligence itself remains a mystery and many animals do better than current AI
Can Christianity Just Abandon the Idea of the Soul?
Theologian Nancey Murphy thinks that the Christian tradition can do without the idea of a soul, by relying only on faith in a bodily resurrection