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Ultrasound of a fetus at 20 weeks
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 1, 2024
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Language, Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind, Politics
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Unborn Child Learns the Accents, Rhythms of Mom’s Native Language

There is, however, a dark, little-told tale about how we learned much of what we know about unborn children today
Denyse O'Leary
August 1, 2024
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Language, Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind, Politics
Although Narayanan frowns on pro-lifers using information to show the individual humanity of the unborn child, that’s clearly where the science points. Read More ›
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Concept of a program for a smartphone to translate from different languages
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News
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November 4, 2022
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Language, Transhumanism
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Neuroscientist Takes Aim at Yuval Noah Harari’s Claims re Humans

Behavioral neuroscientist Darshana Narayanan says that much of what Harari writes “sacrifices science for sensationalism” and is “riddled with errors”
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November 4, 2022
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Language, Transhumanism

Many readers have read our article last June on historian and transhumanist Yuval Noah Harari’s musings on what to do with the people that artificial intelligence is rendering “useless.” Now, first off, what Harari envisions is not happening. As business prof Jay Richards is fond of noting, AI enables more people to craft the jobs they want, with AI doing the traditional drudgery. Despite automation (or because of it),there are still plenty of Help Wanted signs out there. Call the argument Homo Deus vs. The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines, if you like. But at Current Affairs, behavioral neuroscientist Darshana Narayanan offers another critique. Apart from having a disturbing attitude to fellow Read More ›