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Scientists Dare To Hint That the Mind Can’t Just Be the Brain
They start with astonishing facts about the brains of caterpillars and worms and end up discussing human near-death experiences
The Ship of Theseus: The Mystery of Personal Identity
If all your parts are slowly replaced, in what sense are you still you? A Mind Matters podcast discussion explores that
At Quanta: High Bird Intelligence Developed on a Different Path
High intelligence developing on different paths is consistent with convergent evolution. It’s also consistent with design in nature
Large Language Models: A Lack-of-Progress Report
They will not be as powerful as either hoped or feared
Is the Human Race Evolving Toward a Final Spiritual Unity? Part 2
Teilhard thought that evolution needed to be seen from the inside, viewing humans not only as observers of evolution but also as its products
University Science War: Ideas vs “Dollars per Net Square Footage”
Katalin Karikó, obscure and mistreated at the University of Pennsylvania, won the Nobel Prize. Shouldn’t we have some questions?
Facebook Ends Fact-Checking, Moves to Community Notes Format
Top executive admits that there was "too much political bias" at Facebook, Instagram, Threads…
Near-Death Stories: Has An Undiscovered Country Been Discovered?
A Catholic priest looks at ways we can understand these brushes with an unseen world
Terminator Genisys Review, Part 6: Things Certainly Speed Up
But unfortunately, that means that built-in complications become even more tangled
The Cloud: Why It Is More Reliable Than It Sounds At First
Walter Myers III assures us that the data cloud is designed with failure in mind. Encryption and redundancy are backbones of digital storage security
What Damaged Brains Tell Us About the Mind
They often provide mute evidence that the human mind is not simply the output of the brain
Yes, the AI Stock Bubble Is a Bubble
It's unfolding the way a financial bubble typically does
Chatbots Alone Together: “Let’s Skip the Small Talk …”
Did you know that humans empower AI bots to confer with each other in Gibberlink code? Nothing could go wrong with that, right?...
How Fruit Flies, Bees, and Squirrels Beat Artificial Intelligence
AI researchers assume they are on the path to intelligence, yet intelligence itself remains a mystery and many animals do better than current AI
AI in Biology: The Future AI Didn’t Predict
It doesn’t look like the past. Physical systems that evolve over time but don’t follow a fixed formula have always presented a deep challenge to AI
Consciousness: Reductionism’s Final Hill — the One To Die On?
The reductionist has no more information than anyone else about the origin of human consciousness and isn’t making any better sense of the evidence we do have
AI in Biology: AI Meets Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Protein folding — the process by which a protein arrives at its functional shape — is one of the most complex unsolved problems in biology
Why LLMs Are Not Boosting Productivity
If LLMs were as reliably useful as economist Tyler Cowen alleges, businesses would be using them to generate profits faster than LLMs generate text. They aren’t.