Based on extensive training on untold amounts of text, LLMs are able to repackage superficially compelling answers that they literally do not understand.
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In a discussion at Psychology Today, a philosopher notes that her dissertation supporting the reality of near-death experiences was received without hostility.
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What feels remarkable is that people with an interest in political issues have even started to ask these questions. We used to be told they never would.
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Just as extraterrestrials are Out There because we don’t want to think we are alone, chatbots are Becoming Human because we don’t want to feel we are unique.
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The conclusion we must reach by examining our own intentionality carefully is that it has an ultimate origin from a conscious being outside of our world.
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Only in the intellectual world are concepts like correct vs. incorrect (or right vs. wrong) meaningful. It’s a different world from the one created by physics.
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Such a position is not something the materialist derives from the evidence; it is imposed by the ideology.
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The Dalai Lama asked Merzenich a question that cut to the heart of the question of the relationship between our brains and ourselves.
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If information is “the relational glue that holds reality together,” the mind–body problem can be reframed in a more satisfactory way.
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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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Materialist explanations for near-death experiences are much less satisfactory than simply accepting that the mind can act independently of the brain
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When we talk about memory, we often use word pictures that make it seem as though memories behave like material things but they don’t.
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For reasons that are not yet clear, blind people can see during a near-death experience and details have been confirmed. Habermas relates some cases.
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It’s exceedingly unlikely, Prof. Habermas argues, that all these cases result from misperception deception, coincidences, or mistakes.
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The AI scientist’s dream of general intelligence, often referred to as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), remains as elusive as ever.
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Today, when children with Down syndrome can grow up, they can display remarkable abilities, as the story of the Edmonton Oilers’ Joey Moss shows.
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Giuseppina D’oro’s essay introduces two 20th-century idealist philosophers — Oakeshott and Collingwood — and their critique of psychology as a science.
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Hylomorphism, derived from ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, unites the sou with the body without denying its immateriality or immortality.
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Physicist Werner Heisenberg saw in the dilemma of language — the specific vs. the general — an analogy to his famous Uncertainty Principle in physics.
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Fifty years ago slick commentators expected to explode myths about the soul or the hereafter but today, NDEs and terminal lucidity are serious research topics.
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