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News
Date
July 17, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Religion

Tagged
Atheism, Featured, John Lennox, John Polkinghorne, science}

Oxford Mathematician: Atheism Detracts from Science

_{The problem, as John Lennox sees it, is that atheism does not provide grounds for believing in rationality} _{News
July 17, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Religion}

Today, Evolution News and Science Today published an excerpt from Oxford mathematician John Lennox’s 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (Zondervan 2020): in which Lennox discusses some of the ways in which atheism detracts from science: Science proceeds on the basis of the assumption that the universe is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to the human mind. No science can be done without the scientist believing this, so it is important to ask for grounds for this belief. Atheism gives us none, since it posits a mindless, unguided origin of the universe’s life and consciousness. John Lennox, “Why Science and Atheism Don’t Mix” at Evolution News and Science Today: He offers physicist John Polkinghorne’s explanation of Read More ›

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News
Date
May 8, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy

Tagged
Algorithms, Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), science}

Will Ideas or Algorithms Rule Science Tomorrow?

_{David Krakauer of the Santa Fe Institute offers an unsettling vision of future science as produced by machines that no one really understands} _{News
May 8, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy}

The basic problem is that accepting on faith what we can’t ever hope to understand is not a traditional stance of science. Thus it’s a good question whether science could survive such a transition and still be recognizable to scientists. But does turning things over to incomprehensible algorithms, as Krakauer proposes, really work anyway? Current results from a variety of areas give pause for thought.

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Michael Egnor
Date
March 22, 2020

Categorized
Religion

Tagged
Aristotle, Atheism, Five Ways, Jerry Coyne, Logic, Philosophy, science, Theism, Thomas Aquinas}

God’s Existence Is Proven by Science

_{Arguments for God’s existence can be demonstrated by the ordinary method of scientific inference} _{Michael Egnor
March 22, 2020

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Religion}

If we approach the arguments logically, as the ancient philosophers did, we will see that it is more certain that God exists than that anything else does. Atheist evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne should consider the arguments more carefully before assuming that prayer is foolish.

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Eric Holloway
Date
January 21, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind, Programming

Tagged
NP-Hard Problem, science}

Will an AI Win a Nobel Prize for Science All by Itself One Day?

_{No, but Support Vector Machines (SVMs) can allow scientists to frame questions so that a comprehensible answer is more likely} _{Eric Holloway
January 21, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind, Programming}

AI can certainly help scientists. But to understand why AI can’t do science on its own, we should take a look at the NP-Hard Problem in computer science. The “Hard” is in the name of the problem for a reason…

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
December 26, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Global Technology, Medicine and Health

Tagged
research, science}

2019 AI Hype Countdown #6: AI Will Replace Scientists!

_{In May of this year, The Scientist ran a series of pieces suggesting that we could automate the process of acquiring scientific knowledge} _{Jonathan Bartlett
December 26, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Global Technology, Medicine and Health}

In reality, without appropriate human supervision, AI is just as likely to find false or unimportant patterns as real ones. Additionally, the overuse of AI in science is actually leading to a reproducibility crisis.

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Analysis
Date
June 26, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Featured, Futurism, Kurt Gödel, Longform, Philosophy, science}

Futurism Doesn’t Learn from Past Experience

_{Technological success stories cannot be extrapolated into an indefinite future} _{Analysis
June 26, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence}

The limits of science can be as instructive as the discoveries. If science someday proved that computer systems could never reproduce some aspect of mind, we’d have learned something important about the nature of mind.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 7, 2018

Categorized
Ethics, Social Factors, Technocracy

Tagged
Bots, media, Media history, science, social media}

Science Confronts Credibility Issues?

_{Not to worry, prestigious researchers blame them on social media trolls and bots} _{Denyse O'Leary
December 7, 2018

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Ethics, Social Factors, Technocracy}

And another thing: The researchers phoned the Seventies and asked them to please come back. Soon. Seriously, that’s the impression I get from reading a paper in PNAS, stemming from the National Academy of Sciences’ Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium November 2017

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Mind Matters
Date
September 23, 2018

Categorized
Social Factors

Tagged
citation, digitization, science}

Does digitization threaten science?

_{It enables new abuses, according to a Cambridge nanoscientist} _{Mind Matters
September 23, 2018

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Social Factors}

The problem is not digitization as such, of course, but the mindset that it inadvertently encourages. Sometimes, for example, “citation rings” agree to cite each other’s papers so as to artificially inflate their rankings. Sometimes it graduates to “citation stacking”