Imagine people making decisions that are influenced by an LLM that does not understand the meaning of any of the words it inputs and outputs.
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If something like dualism is true, then it goes a long way to showing the implausibility of the idea that we are solely meat machines, robots, etc.
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The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused.
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Dualism — human consciousness is real, immaterial, and special — is the only approach to consciousness that accords with the evidence.
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There’s little of substance favoring this new theory of consciousness. We still need something like a god piloting the universe.
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The film, and this entire area of study, seeks to take a scientific approach to NDEs without prior religious assumptions about the existence of the afterlife.
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Goff claims the principle of parsimony is on his side, but what he gives us is minuscule in comparison to theism.
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We need to start asking tough questions about what happened to the role of human thinking and insight in the discovery of how the world, and we, work.
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AI might give us impressive answers to our questions. But that doesn’t mean they have a humanlike understanding of what is going on.
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Last time, we talked about how Gemma gave Cady, her niece, a robotic doll, Megan, to help her raise the child after Cady’s parents were killed. At first, things go smoothly enough, but then Megan is attacked by a dog. The writers seem to have given us two potential theories about what’s happening. The first is that the robot is going through some sort of awakening right at the beginning. Megan has overridden the various safety protocols put in place to keep the robot from hurting people, and it’s only pretending to be protective of Cady. The second option is that during this dog attack, the fail safes malfunction, and this enables the robot to go on its murderous rampage. Read More ›
According to Darwinian “science,” things changed, survivors survived, and the human ability to think abstractly materialized out of thin air.
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Since it’s nearing Halloween, I figured now would be a good time to review some Sci-Fi movies that dabble in the horror genre. Megan came out in 2022 and has been referred to as Chucky for Zoomers. The premise is the same as the horror movie, Child’s Play, from 1988: a child gets a doll. Doll turns psychotic and kills people. It’s pretty straightforward. However, Megan differs by adding a technological twist, calling back to the creepy Furbies, which came out in 1998. Really, those awful toys should’ve had a horror movie of their own. There are many a tale of the mechanical monsters waking up under the bed in the dead of night six months after the poor child Read More ›
After repeated failures to explain consciousness, there’s a new path in the science of consciousness that promises to be the final theory of consciousness.
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The book is prophetic, merging two pertinent issues into one speculative tale: euthanasia and transhumanism.
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The biggest lesson from giving university exams to ChatGPT is that students should be tested in other ways.
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The idea that artificial intelligence could ever become actually “intelligent” is a minority view, but it’s espoused by some brilliant minds, including Jason Lemoine, an ex-Google employee who claimed the company’s developing AI system was sentient. Lemoine isn’t alone. According to Futurism, OpenAI’s top researcher, Ilya Sutskever, claimed in a Tweet this week that “large neural networks are slightly conscious.” Noor Al-Sibai writes, He’s long been preoccupied with artificial general intelligence, or AGI, which would refer to AI that operates at a human or superhuman level. During his appearance in the AI documentary “iHuman,” for instance, he even declared that that AGIs will “solve all the problems that we have today” before warning that they will also present “the potential to create Read More ›
Any attempt to use science to discredit the existence of mental subjects is fatally flawed because the bedrock data for all science comes from observation.
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Editor’s note: We are delighted to welcome the new book from Discovery Institute Press, Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science, edited by Angus J. L. Menuge, Brian R. Krouse, and Robert J. Marks. Below is an excerpt from Chapter 2. Look for more information at MindingtheBrain.org. By Angus Menuge The history of physicalism is one of extraordinary diversity: a wide variety of theories, with multiple versions, have jockeyed for dominance. Yet it is also a tale of persistent failure. One physicalist theory after another has either ignored or falsified the central characteristics of consciousness, intentionality, and rationality that define our mental life. We will begin by tracing the history of physicalism from the early varieties of behaviorism Read More ›
Darwinians may need to learn how to “adapt” to a new environment where panpsychism is increasingly an underlying assumption in science and science writing.
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Editor’s note: We are delighted to welcome the new book from Discovery Institute Press, Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science, edited by Angus J. Menuge, Brian R. Krouse, and Robert J. Marks. Below is an excerpt from the Introduction. Look for more information at MindingtheBrain.org. Is your mind the same thing as your brain? Or are there aspects of mind that are external to the biology of the brain? This question, referred to as the mind-body problem or the mind-brain problem, has been debated for centuries and has captivated curious minds since the dawn of human contemplation. What is the relationship between our mental life and physical body? Intuition suggests our subjective experience of the world is tightly Read More ›