An Atheist Argues Against Reason
And thinks it is the reasonable thing to doJustin Smith is leading the way to the abandonment of rationality. There’s not a shred of reason in his essay.
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The Junk Science of the Abortion Lobby
Fetuses not only experience pain but experience it more intensely than do adults
In One Sense, Consciousness IS an Illusion…
We have no knowledge of the processes of our consciousness, only of the objects of its attention, whether they are physical, emotional, or abstract
4: Making AI Look More Human Makes It More Human-like!
AI help, not hype, with Robert J. Marks: Technicians can do a lot these days with automated lip-syncs and smiles but what’s behind them?
How is Human Language Different from Animal Signals?
What do we need from language that we cannot get from signals alone?
AI and the Future of Murder
If I kill you but upload your mind into an android, did I murder you or just modify you?
Has Neuroscience Disproved Thinking?
A philosopher argues that Nobel Prize-winning research shows that the theory of mind is just another illusion, useful for survival and success
Noted Astronomer Envisions Cyborgs on Mars
Sir Martin Rees thinks of this “post-human evolution” as going beyond Darwin to “secular intelligent design.”
A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind
You can simply picture yourself eating a chocolate ice cream sundae.
Is Free Will a Dangerous Myth?
The denial of free will is a much more dangerous myth
Apes Can Be Generous
Are they just like humans then?
Is the octopus a “second genesis of intelligence”?
Can its strange powers provide insights for robotics or the human mind?
Could AI Understand the Universe?
World-renowned chemist thinks it might understand what we can’t, including consciousness
The Brain Is Not a “Meat Computer”
Dramatic recoveries from brain injury highlight the differenceThe brain looks like a computer only if we analyze it as if it were a computer. Our analysis does not mean that it is a computer, and it does not mean that computation explains the mind or even that computational approaches to neuroscience provide genuinely meaningful insight into neurophysiology.
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Can free will even be an illusion?
Michael Egnor reiterates the freeing implications of quantum indeterminacyMany say so. For example, at Cosmos, senior artificial intelligence research scientist Alfredo Metere explains, … there is a causal relationship between the Big Bang and us. In other words, free will is not allowed, and all of our actions are just a mere consequence of that first event. Such a view is known as “determinism”, or “super-determinism” (if one finds it productive to reinvent the wheel). He asserts that today we know the universe to be chaotic. Because the cosmos is clearly chaotic, we can observe time-reversibility only locally, rather than globally. This in turn means that free will is an inevitable illusion for us humans, due to our subjective perception of the universe, rather than its innermost nature. Read More ›