Koch hoped that the “shared brain” experiment would demonstrate materialism. He may have been unprepared for Egnor’s response.
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It is with deep reverence I learned of the passing of my hero, Dr. Walter L. Bradley. Walter was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University and Distinguished Fellow at the Discovery Institute. A man of extraordinary intellect, boundless compassion, and unwavering faith, he leaves behind a legacy that will continue to inspire generations of scholars, scientists, students, Christians and seekers. Dr. Bradley’s academic career was nothing short of remarkable. He served as Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University and later as a Distinguished Professor at Baylor University. In an academic landscape where the title of “Professor” marks the pinnacle for many, Walter soared beyond. He was recognized for his nationally celebrated scholarship, his Read More ›
Trying to understand the rationale of big monopolists such as Microsoft and Google is often a fool’s errand.
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The job market for recent college grads may be warning us that participation trophies for college and ChatGPT use have long-run costs.
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Common sense says AI companies need to be responsible for their product — just as if it was created directly and disseminated by a human.
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It’s not just about religion. Neither the Greeks nor the Romans could save their Republics once most people stopped believing in the values that created them.
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What we now call “intelligence” has gradually become detached from the embodied, contextualized reasoning that characterized earlier generations.
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15%? Whew. Genetics makes a difference in how life forms look and act… So Crick and Watson, Collins and Venter and all the rest were onto something after all…
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Or just an end to conundrums that aren’t really conundrums if that fact is faced. There is a lot we could be doing with the same expenditure of time, energy, and intellectual skill.
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If writers make the old victories meaningless, the new victories will be meaningless as well, and no one will care about whatever new story appears.
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In short, philosophers distinguish between two fundamental theories of truth: correspondence and coherence, and AI does only coherence.
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Harris is the wife of well-known New Atheist neuroscientist Sam Harris, at one time one of the Four Horsemen of the New Atheist apocalypse.
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We hear so much these days about the need for more trust in science. Making science sound like a carnival of unlikely stories is not helping.
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Many researchers would still like to explain them away via a purely physical cause but the last thirty years of research are an argument for caution.
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If 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 ›
The two doctors turned out to share a bond of personal pain as well as immortal hope.
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In this first of three parts, I look at the role of serendipity — the art of making happy, unexpected discoveries — and how a mechanized world diminishes it.
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I believe that children with hydranencephaly are conscious because all human beings have a spiritual soul and it is by virtue of our soul that we are conscious.
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Perhaps many people no longer see the triumph of hardcore materialism as inevitable — or even possible.
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The alternative to the First Amendment is a narratocracy in which a society’s commanding institutions determine what stories are allowed and disallowed.
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