Month: June 2024
Have We Become Addicted to Change?
A sci-fi author wrote of spaceship pilots using slide rules to calculate their course corrections while on interstellar journeys!
Artificial Intelligences Promises to Level the Playing Field for Intelligent Design
To set the stage, I posed some questions about scientific testability in general and about the testability of the SETI research program.
Some Biologists Take “Plant Minds” Seriously
What would surely puzzle other observers is the considerable current effort — at the same time — to portray human intelligence as some sort of illusion.
What’s Next in the Search for Habitable Worlds?
Are we common or rare? You can be on either side of the question and still be excited about the search for habitable planets capable of harboring life.
Dr. Dan Has a Taste for Debate
From what I’ve been told, there are many examples of “non-conserved” regions having sequence-independent functions.