Category: Neuroscience & Mind
For AI, Human Hands Are Exceptional…For Now
In many artificially contrived images, the hands come up gnarled, disfigured, or otherwise anatomically incorrect.
Depths of Design: Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence
The effort to mirror objects in the world in our artistic creations reaches back into prehistory.
Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution
Despite Miller’s claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither is generated by material processes.
Marks: Human Exceptionalism in a World of AI
“Ever wonder whether computers will one day be capable of doing everything that human beings can?”
Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”
Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature.