Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Jay Richards: Myths, Metaphysics, and Artificial Intelligence
It isn’t a superior grasp of the technology involved that drives some to warn that AI will achieve superiority over human beings.
J. P. Moreland: Is the Human Mind Immortal?
Philosopher J. P. Moreland is a Fellow with the Center for Science & Culture. He offers some thoughts.
New from Science Uprising — Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and the Human Difference
Creativity, not mere copying or following commands, entails thinking “outside the box.” That’s how it can surprise us with genuine novelty.
Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?
Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”?
Another Philosopher Says the Unified Self Is an Illusion
In an interview, Julian Baggini asserted that, while consciousness is not an illusion, a unified self that persists through time is.
