For example, he points out that electrons are patterns in experience with stable and lawlike behavior. They are not little solid objects that exist in themselves.
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Materialism, Egnor says, is rarely defended explicitly; rather, objections are brushed off and prominent objectors may be Canceled.
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Part of the problem, the study authors say, seems to be that many honest scientists are sleepwalking around the seriousness of the situation.
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Hamed Rajabi hopes that “mechanical intelligence,” modeled on evolution, not on software design, will break new ground.
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Hal Philipp’s inventions underpin automatic faucets, door sensors, and the capacitive touchscreens that made the smartphone era possible. In this podcast, he offers a candid field guide to turning ideas into impact. The discussion ranges from startup structure and venture capital to patent warfare, corporate brinkmanship, and the social aftershocks of the iPhone. Philipp is interviewed by Robert J. Marks and Bradley Norris. Engineering education Marks opens with a challenge to engineering education. Universities excel at training graduates for Boeing or Motorola, but seldom spotlight entrepreneurship as a viable path. Philipp agrees and then complicates the picture. If he could rewind, he says, he would “get a little more assistance,” likely allying with a larger organization to gain leverage. In Read More ›
The mind that is having a near-death experience is separated from the body, relying on its own concepts. It is not necessarily a channel of divine truth.
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Researchers found that many students who claim to have progressive views are just pretending but Orwellian exclusions and firings may force conformity.
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One change is that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT-5, seems to be acknowledging that the AI bubble might soon burst.
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Though no one discusses it directly, while the researchers designed the device to avoid invading privacy, others will doubtless have the opposite intent.
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When we swipe a phone or tap a touchscreen, few of us realize how much engineering — and legal grit — underlies that simple gesture. In an interview with Mind Matters podcasting, inventor Hal Philipp traces the path from lone tinkerer to successful founder, and finally to weary veteran of patent warfare. Philipp, a key inventor behind modern capacitive sensing and touchscreens, delivers a sober message for innovators: invention is only half the battle; defending your invention can define your company’s fate. From Single-Point Touch to a Full Touchscreen Philipp’s early work focused on single-channel capacitive sensors — one-button touch or proximity detection. The breakthrough came when he generalized the idea into linear touch sliders and then into a circular Read More ›
One consequence is that near-death experiences are now treated as a phenomenon worthy of study, rather than a folk or occult belief.
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If this is a tech Gold Rush, based on recent news, we might be better off selling shovels than investing in the gold.
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An economist argues that some of the institutions which enable science to be a successful endeavour also abet and encourage fraud.
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As Jeffrey Funk notes, the extravagant hype is aimed at attracting investors, not describing the actual products.
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The theme that science is confirming the traditional philosophical understanding of life is also the theme of David Klinghoffer’s Plato’s Revenge.
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His business grew — not from grand design — but from a series of smart, well-timed responses to opportunity.
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YouTube is one of the factors that is slowly killing network TV, which naturally makes its channels more valuable.
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A new dark age for science may not need a repressive government; it only needs a situation where stakeholders cannot enforce standards.
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The conventional assumption today is that consciousness has a material source. Yet no one has found a place where it lives in the brain.
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Chatbots process enormous amounts of data and produce convincing outputs but, he says, they do not grasp the meaning of the concepts they manipulate.
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