Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Egnor Versus Shallit: Can Brains Learn?
Egnor he nails it by noting that Shallit, not uniquely, falls victim to the mereological fallacy.
Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity
The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other.
Egnor: Democracy, Tyranny, and Technology
“It is the obscurity of AI that most impairs liberty. We do not know what is being done to us or even what is being done by us.”
Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision
It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge
Bill Dembski on the AI Boogeyman, and the Real AI Danger
“The real worry,” Dembski says, “isn’t that we’ll raise machines to our level, but that we’ll lower humanity to the level of machines.”