AI gen writing: Model collapse in slow motion
When more and more AI-generated writing floats around the internet, we start to realize what we are wading through.
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A Microsoft exec responds to students booing tech
Unions are springing up in the tech sector. But is the 1930s strategy of unionization still the right one nearly a century later?
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Bogus AI-gen citations are multiplying rapidly in research
Researchers warn that, without intervention, bogus citations could impact scientific discovery, policy, and public understanding.
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Researchers: Bumblebees can develop creative solutions
The bumblebee has only about one million neurons (humans have 86 billion). The number of neurons needed for complex behavior may be overestimated.
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If glaciers have rights, why don’t they have responsibilities?
The main concern with glacier rights is the inevitable erosion of what human rights mean. Ungrounded in reality, they come to mean everything, anything, and ultimately, nothing.
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Novels: Did someone stay up late? Or is it just AI?
We also tried an AI detector on copy from Mind Matters News…
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A moment of sanity: The Leiden Declaration on AI
Even as supersmart types get trapped in the “AI is becoming human” nonsense, a group of mathematicians is trying to Make Skepticism Normal Again.
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AI chatbots fronted a fake eye disease and told everyone about it
The red flags were pretty obvious, actually. We should keep this in mind when we hear commentators extol the wonders of AI in health care.
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At Aeon: Mathematics is not a human invention
If mathematics is discovered, not invented, the foundation of our universe is abstract, not concrete.
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Is materialism holding science back?
The very fact that a respectable discussion is beginning around this question tells us that something has changed.
Read More ›Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviewed on the reality of the mind
Michael Egnor is being asked to speak in many venues as the result of the publication of his and Denyse O’Leary’s 2025 book, The Immortal Mind.
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The UFO files are online and the space aliens are still missing
There’s nothing there. Look, maybe we are alone in the universe. Or maybe not. But real space exploration is the only way we can hope to find out.
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Bad news for AI in education: Major paper retracted
The good news is that better educators are recognizing that physical literacy skills are important too. We are minds and bodies, not digital programs.
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We humans are not digital. We are body and mind conjoined
We struggle with the pencil or pen until our bodies begin to express what our minds are learning and thinking. Or … we don’t — and the results show.
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Does “The Immortal Mind” try to prove the existence of God?
Most of what we had to say, based on neuroscience and similar topics, could fit nicely into a Buddhist universe where the mind is real but there isn’t a God.
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Physicist proposes new consciousness theory that explains NDEs
Maria Strømme’s approach seems like part of a gradual recognition that materialism is coming under fire for evidence-based reasons.
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What if all that hate is just a few angry people with keyboards?
X recently allowed users to find out that many loud voices poisoning public discussion are not who they claim to be.
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Google offers new way to check for AI deepfakes
There will likely be pressure on other image tool creators to embed watermarks and, with any luck, suspicion will fall on those that don’t.
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Philosopher: Free will hypothesis survives test of predictions
At his blog, scientist and clergyman Kirk Durston takes on theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who denies free will.
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Nvidia’s earnings call rattles “whole financial world” — but why?
Creating and catering to psychological addictions is not like selling shovels, can openers or batteries. It’s much more bubble-prone.
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