It will be interesting to see whether other orangutans in the area begin to imitate their new neighbor in using chewed akar kuning leaves to treat wounds.
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Human uniqueness is essential to our duties to each other, our posterity, the humane treatment of animals, and proper husbanding of the environment.
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Ewert predicts that, while humans will get better at building artificial intelligence systems, we will never be able to match ourselves.
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Their discussion of animal behavior depends wholly on the uniquely human ability to abstract. That ability also radically changes how humans use tools.
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Frank, fellow physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson argue in a new book that ignoring explicitly human experience is a blind spot for science
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The problem is, so much is lost that it is risky to draw conclusions. But what’s remarkable is how humans have expressed themselves with whatever was available.
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We must mentally step outside nature to consider things like how the world was created or what lies beyond death. Immaterial minds can do that.
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Those who think that Harvard’s best and brightest should rule over us might want to invest some time to discover how some of them really think.
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Terrace attempted to teach infant chimpanzee Nim Chimpsky to form a sentence but conceded defeat. His apparent early successes were traced to human prompting.
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There is no reason to think Neanderthals were not human in the usual sense except that someone must be the subhuman if Darwinism is true.
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Physicist Rob Sheldon warns, when ridiculous inhumane ideas are routinely aired, we become more willing to accept inhumane ideas that are in fact quite viable.
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It’s not wise to bet against complexity in the brain. Or to bet that no differences will be found between the human brain and, say, the mouse brain.
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Understanding oneself as one of a set of twins is an abstract proposition. Considering what that entails, it’s a wonder that anyone doubts human exceptionalism.
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Many people have a hard time accepting the fact that we may never know if we are the only intelligence in the cosmos. Unusual psychologies may result.
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At the end of the day, a lot of the AI enthusiasm among the technological “futurists” like Ray Kurzweil is based on certain assumptions of what a human being fundamentally is. Casey Luskin reported on Kurzweil’s lecture at the recent COSM 2023 conference, noting how he is convinced that AI is humanity’s destiny, and will serve as our functional “God figure,” all-knowing, self-determining, sentient. Kurzweil sees the human person in purely scientific terms: if we can achieve a certain level of technological advancement, we will transcend our limits and take the next step of human evolution. Technology will be our religion, the means to our immortality. Jacques Maritain, a French philosopher, shared helpful thoughts about the human person in his Read More ›
As I always say, if you want to see what is going so badly wrong in society, read the professional and intellectual journals.
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The lives of human beings are unquantifiably more important than those of pigs.
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Are humans progressing morally as well as materially? What does it mean to be human in the cosmos? On a new episode of ID the Future, we bring you the second half of a stimulating conversation between Dr. David Berlinski and host Eric Metaxas on the subject of Berlinski’s book Human Nature. In Human Nature, Berlinski argues that the utopian view that humans are progressing toward evolutionary and technological perfection is wishful thinking. Men are not about to become like gods. “I’m a strong believer in original sin,” quips Berlinski in his discussion with Metaxas. In other words, he believes not only that humans are fundamentally distinct from the rest of the biological world, but also that humans are prone to ignorance and Read More ›
In this conversation and in his book, Berlinski argues that human beings have a fundamental essence that is radically different from other organisms.
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The war on the basic fact that humans are different from other life forms is leading researchers down some very unusual paths.
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