If being a scientist means that one must refuse to consider the evidence for design, it’s no wonder if many are looking for alternatives.
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People can afford to loathe traditional media for its missteps because they have alternatives in social media now.
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The messy processes of the brain that enable the various layers of consciousness bear no relationship to what happens in computers.
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Explainaways protect the system from unwanted evidence by ignoring or dismissing it. But when the weight of such evidence grows, they stop sounding persuasive.
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Reading for entertainment alone will become increasingly rare. I expect we will return to a culture where people who read are mainly looking for new ideas.
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Did Neanderthal man get smarter or is there a growing realization of the fact that the human mind has no history? We see it where and when we see it.
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We can’t do more than wonder but the main thing to see here is that the special position of humans might enable it.
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As an editor, I have often quietly substituted more reliable sources for information than Wikipedia when preparing various authors’ work for publication.
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Things have really gone south if people need to be taught how to flirt without technology.
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Consciousness is an immaterial creation given only to human beings to enable us to have a relationship with a higher power and to understand our universe better.
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Egnor notes that intellect is the capacity to contemplate universals. In this respect, a human being is more different from an ape than an ape is from a virus.
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The people trying to manufacture human language from ape laughter simply don’t have a better hypothesis. But much seems to depend on pretending otherwise.
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TV is a dying industry. The internet is not so timebound as TV and it is much more interactive.
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The people who do not trust science today would probably like to be able to. And the people who do trust it may simply be unaware of the problems.
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It’s supposed to be a given that machines or brain organoids might be conscious despite not knowing what that is or how it works — but preborn children can’t be…
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Many people, for example, do not realize that age-verification laws, which sound virtuous, require monitoring everyone’s usage of AI at home, not just that of minors.
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Most of us are hypocrites for social peace. But we tend to abandon hypocrisy when things start to really get out of hand.
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What these speculations point to is the way new findings have destroyed classical materialism. Materialism isn’t so much dying out as breaking up.
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Part of the reason we don’t know exactly how anesthesia works is surely that we do not know what consciousness is (there are at least 325 theories out there).
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Instead of being expected to believe that human consciousness is an illusion, we may believe it exists — along with the cabbage mind and the electron mind.
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