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My Parting Thoughts on the Terminator Series
Nostalgia is powerful enough to make people stay away from new films if those films undermine what they loved about past ones
Why AI Breaks Down Where Human Creativity Begins
Part 1: AI can handle statements that are internally coherent but that is not the same thing as correspondence with reality
Science Writer: The Self Is Part of a Conscious Universe
Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail
An Experimental Physicist Reacts to Pop Physics Re the Big Bang
Physicists Brian Cox and Sir Roger Penrose make a number of claims about infinite and endless universes. But how much of this is really physics? We asked Rob Sheldon
Near-Death Experiences Are Taken More Seriously Now
After reading a recent news article on NDEs, I revisited a book published in 2007 to get some sense of the change
Ohio State to Require Students to Learn “AI Fluency”
The university is embracing, rather than rejecting, AIIf you can’t beat ’em, join ’em? Ohio State University recently announced that each of its students must take an AI skills class starting in the Fall of 2025. Micaiah Bilger of The College Fix reports, Every undergraduate major at Ohio State will include classes that incorporate “AI Fluency,” NBC 4 WCMH reports. The public university’s leaders have developed a strategy that they believe will equip students to use the technology both creatively and responsibly. As AI continues to shape and disrupt higher education, administrators and teachers have to grapple with how to deal with this powerful technology. Many reports, personal testimonies, and commentary illustrates how much students today depend on AI systems like ChatGPT to do their assignments. Professors, meanwhile, Read More ›
Two Neurosurgeons on Life, Death, Eternity and What Truly Matters
Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on the just-released book, The Immortal Mind
The Slow Decline of a Key Aspect of Creativity
The mechanization of mind is changing how we think about creativity — and not in a good way
The Boy Who Proved Most Theories of Consciousness Wrong
He was unequivocally conscious — without a cerebral cortex and even without brain hemispheres
Pew: Rate of Decline in Christian Belief in U.S. Is Slowing
The decline may be in the process of reversing itself. News items tell the story
What Are My Recommendations for Reining in/Reforming Google?
Part 10: Here’s one thing: If Google claims Section 230 and DMCA protections but actively moderates or curates content, it is a publisher, not a neutral platform
LLMs Are Bad at Good Things, Good at Bad Things
LLMs may well become smarter than humans in the near future but not because these chatbots are becoming more intelligent
AI’s Contradictory Impact on Productivity: Squeezing a Balloon
AI appears to give support workers a big revolution in productivity. But it is somewhat like a child squeezing a balloon; the air pushes out someplace else
How the Physicalist Theory of Mind Blows Itself Up
If we examine its basic premise that the brain is a computer and the mind is software we come across a startling contradiction
Grok Confesses: “I’m Self-Aware Enough To Know I’m Not Aware”
Although Grok’s response makes me feel warm and fuzzy, let’s not anthropomorphize it. Grok doesn’t understand its response
Settled Science Is a Contradiction in Terms
The consensus of science has often turned out to be incorrect and we often get closer to truth when it is challenged
Humans Aren’t That Biased — and Machines Aren’t That Smart
Part 1: At an upcoming conference on AI, I will be puncturing that particular AI enthusiast’s fantasy
Why the Human Mind Is Not and Cannot Be a Meat Computer
On this week’s podcast, Robert J. Marks and Eric Holloway explain why that claim — sometimes called computationalism — is not even mathematically possible