Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Computer Engineer Robert J. Marks Discusses the Perils and Promise of AI
Marks concedes that a computer code can surprise us — as, for example, when playing the game Go.
Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer”
Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms.
An Invitation: Science, Culture, and the COSM Conference
Discovery is getting ready to enter into a conversation with leaders in the information and technology industry, centered in Seattle.
Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma
What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme.
Edward Feser on Aristotle’s Revenge — Purpose and Essence in Nature
Scientists can get along without Aristotle’s metaphysics, says Feser, but science can’t.