It’s not that the textbooks are wrong; they are just not telling the whole story.
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The news control Cernovich reveals sounds pretty corrupt but, given declining trust and readership, a case an be made for letting it die an easy natural death.
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As we’ve noted earlier, neuroscience has never disproven free will, much as some neuroscientists may have wanted it to.
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The doctrine of most religious traditions that the soul is not destroyed with the body is not presented as a comfort so much as a plain fact, with consequences.
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Neanderthals cannot be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. But if the human mind has no history, there is no missing link.
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It’s not stone tool use that is exclusive to humans; vultures can do that. It’s the ability to form abstract ideas — like the study of tool use among animals.
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The physicalist wants to assert that the mind (soul) is simply what the brain does while escaping the contradictions that follow if we think about it seriously.
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The producers of the information the chatbots scarf up are not being compensated and, in the long run, that will affect the quality of the product.
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In reality, where language is concerned, there is a vast gulf fixed. It is not between primates and other mammals but between humans and all other life forms.
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London School of Economics philosophy professor Jonathan Birch thinks many will oppose the exploitation of conscious AI.
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A sense is growing that no matter what stunning neuroscience discoveries we make, we cannot in principle explain E = MC^2 by what Einstein had for breakfast.
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It’s not even clear that relying on legacy media is a better way to be well-informed any more than citizen journalism is.
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The study, along with recent studies of Neanderthal tools and stone circles, is making the idea that they were intellectually inferior increasingly untenable.
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Musk’s philosophy of the future: I believe it should be curiosity about the Universe – expand humanity to become a multiplanet, then interstellar, species.
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Shermer writes, “the people promulgating these woke ideas are mostly true believers” and their fervor makes it easier to convince themselves, not others.
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If a human cannot see the difference between classic poetry and utter banality, that human will not succeed in literature simply by trying harder. Same for bots
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The article doesn’t really get into the question of why public trust fell so much during the COVID years. Perhaps an anecdote will help.
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While the article is most interesting, somehow, it doesn’t seem like we have learned more about human nature. Human nature isn’t entirely in our brains.
Read More ›Fr. Patrick Gorevan (St. Patrick’s Maynooth) offers some thoughts on God and science at Australia’s MercatorNet. He is discussing a recent book, Science at the Doorstep to God (Ignatius 2023) by Fr. Robert Spitzer: How about the extraordinary and unlikely fine-tuning which was needed for life to emerge? Sir Fred Hoyle, an adamant atheist, after discovering the need for exceedingly Read More ›
If the universe is the product of intelligence, in principle, insects could have access to it? But the question is, how, exactly?
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