Month: May 2014
In an Apocalyptic Mood, Stephen Hawking Overestimates the Evolutionary Future of Smart Machines
The human mind isn’t a computer program, though there’s never a dearth of people happy to promulgate that view.
Et Tu, Octopus? It Was Hard Enough to Explain Human Eyes by Unguided Processes
“Exactly how such convergent evolution arises is not always clear.” Is it ever?
For Neil Tyson and Cosmos, Serious Scientific Controversies Are All a Thing of the Past
Whatever you believe about the origin of humans or the future of climate change, dissent deserves to be heard.
The Green War on Africans
The throttling of African development is a cruel example of anti-human environmental activism.
What Is a Mind? More Hype from Big Data
Artificial Intelligence — specifically, “Strong Artificial Intelligence” (Strong AI) — is a thesis about the capabilities of machines, and equally a commentary on the nature of mind.