Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus
It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language.
Artificial General Intelligence: The Creation Exceeding the Creator
Is artificial intelligence at a tipping point, with AGI ready to appear in real time? Or is AGI more like many other themes of science fiction?
Artificial General Intelligence: An Idol for Destruction
Idols are always frauds because they substitute a lesser for a greater, demanding reverence for the lesser at the expense of the greater.
Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction
Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function.
Can Science Tell if Our Cats Love Us?
A cat is not a pack animal; he is adapted to a solitary life. Usually, he likes us but he doesn’t need us emotionally in the same way as a dog.