Author: Robert J. Marks II
No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code
These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps.
The Non-Computable Human
An algorithm is a step-by-step set of instructions to accomplish a task. A recipe for German chocolate cake is an algorithm.
Why Just Anything Can’t Happen Via Infinite Universes
Can you be bald in one universe and fully haired in another? Can you have two eyeballs in this universe and three in another? The answer is no.
Bernoulli, Keynes, and the Big Bang
In analysis of fine-tuning, No Free Lunch Theorems, and conservation of information, Bernoulli’s PrOIR is foundational.
How Materialism Proves Unbounded Scientific Ignorance
There is an infinite number of things that are true that we cannot prove scientifically and never will.