Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Kissinger: A.I. Machines Won’t “Think”
Transhumanists and other anti-human exceptionalists have been arguing of late that artificial-intelligence machines are destined to become so sophisticated that they will become “self-aware.”
Next Time I Need a Therapist, I’m Staying Away from Jeremy P. Shapiro
For remarkable blindness to his own “thinking errors,” Dr. Shapiro gets a prize.
Don’t Fear the Robots; Fear the Robot Philosophers
Believe it or not, many officially smart people think that (1) we are just computers made of meat, (2) computers will soon become conscious, or (3) both.
Egnor: Two Weaknesses of Agentive Cosmopsychism
There are a limited number of explanations available for how cosmic fine-tuning came to be. Actually, there are three.
Rights Are Not about “Feelings”
Thomas Hills argues that we will accord human-style rights to robots because we will come to empathize with them.