CategoryPsychology
Why AI Will Not and Cannot Think Our Thoughts
How can a robot ever have a spiritual vision of reality? How can it even be emotional?
The Cancel Culture Mob Comes for the Psychologists
The response “It’s complicated,” chosen by nearly half of psychology profs, is a roundabout confession of cowardice in the face of mobs threatened by findings they hope to stifle
Does Time Exist? That’s Not As Clear As We Might Think
We picture a clock when we think of time but, physicists note, that’s not how we experience it as living beings
Is Psychology Heading for Another Big Replication Crisis?
The use of Amazon’s MTurk in survey research risks a second scandal in which findings are low quality and can’t be replicated, critics warn
Is the New Natural-Sounding Chatbot GPT4.o Breaking a Barrier?
It depends on what barrier you mean, says philosopher of technology Shannon Vallor. It could harm vulnerable people by convincing them that it is a person
Robocop 2014: A Good Movie Hampered by Bad Timing
The 2014 remake of RoboCop is considered a failure by most. I disagree. It has its problems but it is pretty solid in many respects
Is AI the Triumph of Left-Brained Thinking? What Follows?
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist argues that it is and asks us to consider what its cultural lean toward the “left brain” is doing to us
So Who Are Today’s Disinformation Police?
Social scientists are striving to develop ways to blunt the force of information that governments would rather the public did not know or heed
Philosopher: Non-Materialism Is Fashionable Orthodoxy Now
Non-reductionism, which means that the mind is not simply reducible to the brain, is now well accepted, she argues
Scientists Attempt an Honest Look at Why We Trust Science Less
Contemplating the depressing results of a recent Pew survey, a molecular biologist and a statistician take aim at growing corruption in science
Dembski: Does the Squawk Around AI Sound Like the Tower of Babel?
Well then, maybe that’s just what it is, he argues, in a new series of short essays
New Studies Point to Ways We Might Reduce the Effects of Dementia
Can There Really Be an Ultimate Happiness Machine?
Technology can do so much. Can it really provide an answer to the eternal human quest for happiness?
Psychology Researchers: AI Showed Imitation, Not Innovation
Testing children and adults against chatbots, the researchers found that the chatbots could match things up but struggled to solve problems on their own
Do Scientists Need to Learn to Lie More Believably?
As public trust in science diminishes, one serious proposal that scientists should manipulate our beliefs for our own good
The Free Will Debate Really Heated Up This Year
Many commentators are weighing in; surprisingly, perhaps, well-known materialists are disputing the claim that there is no free will
Exopsychology: The Psychology of No One We Ever Knew
The academic attempt to establish a psychology of alien intelligences — for whose existence we have no evidence — tells us something about ourselves
The Left and Right Brain Both Want Pop Science Media to Chill
Neuroscience is not an especially rewarding field for the pursuit of dogma