Category: Neuroscience & Mind
If IQ Is Inherited, Is the Intellect Simply Material?
The widely accepted heritability of IQ — between 57 percent and 80 percent in twin studies — is strong evidence for the materiality of the intellect.
How Materialism Proves Unbounded Scientific Ignorance
There is an infinite number of things that are true that we cannot prove scientifically and never will.
Terrific Video Interview with Erik Larson
It was done before his book was released and gives a succinct summary of the book. It’s short.
Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences
If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge.
“Are We Spiritual Machines?”
The event at which I moderated the discussion about Ray Kurzweil’s book was the 1998 George Gilder Telecosm conference.