We learn nothing specific here about how our remote ancestors thought but we have learned something useful: Big Think sees this as cutting edge science.
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Mahlburg on the open triumph of Cancel Culture: “not only is the emperor naked — he’s self-consciously streaking around the town square.”
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Perhaps the basic problem is that it’s not clear what chatbots and generative AI produce other than private entertainment.
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Canadian lawyer Collin May looked at recent research on Cancel mobs and found that the witnesses in an institution tend to go along with the cancellation.
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I’ve noticed over the last year that X is slowly morphing into a new type of news medium, perhaps best suited to a global internet.
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Information theorist Dembski thinks that the statistical averages that bots depend on mean they will necessarily regress to the mean and result in mediocrity.
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Many people have watched the short Closer to Truth videos at YouTube, where Robert Lawrence Kuhn has interviewed over two hundred scientists and philosophers on consciousness and related fields. The short format and lively pace are geared to those of us who are generally interested in the ideas and the people but don’t have hours or days to spare. Now Read More ›
Confirmation of post-death consciousness during trauma might seem a little thing. But in science persistent little discrepancies are often the ones that matter.
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If a physical explanation of consciousness is impossible (so many theories, so little insight), what about those claims that computers will soon be conscious?
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The world of right and wrong, crime and punishment, revenge and forgiveness, is a human one that requires the gift of abstract reason.
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Human consciousness is unique and the largely inanimate universe may indeed be a stage for our spiritual unfolding. It is hardly narcissistic to think so.
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A recent experiment claimed to have identified negative time. If that’s true, solving one mystery in science opens up a vista of… more mysteries.
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Philosopher Susana Monsó admits that her thesis that opossums understand death is partly driven by her environment concerns — and her emotional needs.
Read More ›In 2023, dualist philosopher David Chalmers unexpectedly won an important 25-year science wager with Allen Institute neuroscientist Christof Koch. Chalmers took the view that no physical “consciousness spot” would be found in the brain by 2023 — and it wasn’t. Last month, Robert Lawrence Kuhn asked Chalmers at Closer to Truth, Kuhn: David, you are a great proponent of consciousness Read More ›
Responding to California’s new legislation forbidding deepfakes in political advertising, championed by governor Gavin Newsom — and promptly challenged by a parody writer — economist Robert Graboyes offers at his Substack, Bastiat’s Window, his own parodies … of Newsom: Apparently, a sizable number of California voters share a genetic trait stunting their capacity to recognize political satire and parody—a disability Read More ›
The idea that plants can “feel” things, based on their complex reactions, may stem from a misunderstanding of categories of consciousness.
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For many today, truth is whatever benefits Woke causes. Claims for truth that offer them no political benefit are seen as a threat, meriting a hostile response.
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The Big Bang and its outcomes may explain the origin of matter and energy but do they really explain the origin of information?
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The Woke, it turns out, are no more tolerant of atheists than they are of anyone else with divergent views. That may be what finally fells new atheism.
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Life after death: A gap is growing between “no way” and “impossible to disclaim.” That gap is probably going to get bigger rather than smaller.
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