Pavel Durov’s arrest chilled social media bosses but elated those who think it is time for governments, worldwide, to exert more control over what we say.
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Unity of the mind underlines the actual existence of the mind, a concept that many fashionable neuroscientists would very much like to refute.
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The internet crashed the cost of independent content creation but it also crashed the cost of censorship via compliant big social media platforms.
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In his view, no whole human being decides not to do something wrong or harmful. Only the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which has no opinion, does so…
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On the whole, Milligan’s worries are not so much unreasonable as they are perennial. People will NOT easily accept that we might be alone in the universe.
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New brain implant technology may help covertly conscious people make contact because neurons can interface with electrical systems.
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As governments increasingly attempt to control news, a question looms: What they will do when prebunking disapproved information doesn’t prevent Wrongthink?
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Traditionally, atheists have not thought that just about anything is permissible in order to avoid death; like the religious, they approached it philosophically
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One of our readers writes to say, “I resisted the military dictatorship in Brazil in the 1960s, and I will resist the dictatorship of a judge in 2024.”
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Before dismissing the idea as untestable, we should ask, is the idea that consciousness is an illusion, grounded in Darwinian evolution theory, testable?
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Lizards can be surprisingly intelligent. If there are rules, it’s not clear what role, if any, evolution plays.
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Aboitiz concludes, “In the end, the dualistic dilemma between subjective experience and mechanistic explanations seems to me inescapable.”
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In a world of private truth that owes nothing to either faith or science, dissenting opinion is an invasion from an alien universe. Stay safe by not hearing.
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Darwinism’s failure to simply *eliminate* the human mind, as promised, enabled a Pandora’s box of materialist claims for consciousness in all life forms.
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The concern Michael Egnor expresses, that materialism, while barren, may be replaced by something worse, may be prescient, depending on how panpsychism unfolds.
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As Kuhn marvels, Josephson reasons his way to precisely the sorts of conclusions generally accepted in major world religions.
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Cognitive selection, as present even in the earliest living cells, directs the history of life in their view, enabling meaning and purpose.
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Idea boycotts have been known to suppress new ideas for centuries. It used to be thought of as a negative idea, a sort of dark ages…
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The platform continues to grow — and may be evolving into a new type of medium — but first it must survive massive industry hostility.
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In terms of the nature of the obstacles faced, is conscious AI a problem more like Pluto tourism or time travel? Why is this question not raised more often?
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