Category: Neuroscience & Mind
New Book: Mind Is More than the Brain
Says Gregory Chaitin, algorithmic information theory pioneer: “The mind-body problem lives! A stimulating collection of contemporary perspectives.”
Inferring the Best Explanation via Artificial Intelligence
The analogy with chess is apt — computers play chess but in ways different from us by being able to brute force their way through millions more positions.
ChatGPT Is Becoming Increasingly Impressive
Yet I continue to maintain that human intelligence is qualitatively different from artificial intelligence.
Cellular Cognition? So Much for Darwinism!
Following up in considering Daniel Nicholson’s challenge to the machine concept of the cell, I will examine intracellular transport and cellular behavior.
Oliver Anthony and Human Exceptionalism
If you’ve been online at all for the last few weeks, chances are you’ve come across headlines about the folk/country singer Oliver Anthony.