Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Marks on the AI Church: “The Singularity Is Far”
New religions, including one centered on Artificial Intelligence, follow a stereotyped pattern.
Congratulations! Coyne Promotes Egnor to “Archenemy”
Archenemy sounds a little…obsessive.
Great Minds: Marks, Medved on Human Exceptionalism’s Two Frontiers
There are fundamental, unbridgeable chasms on either side, animal and machine. The capacity for creativity, for one thing, stands permanently outside the reach of algorithms.
Talking Animals and Human Exceptionalism
Whether in Warner Bros. cartoons, old jokes, or on Twitter, a good deal of humor has been derived from supposing that animals could talk.
For Transhumanists, a Dawning Realization
New religions aren’t necessarily founded already knowing that that is what they are destined to become.