Tag: consciousness
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.
How Does a Religious Studies Professor Become a Darwinian Skeptic?
The perpetuation of Darwinian ideology comes at the cost of truly grappling with the profound nature of the question of biological origins.
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.
Artificial Intelligence as a “Magic Act”
The error is not completely different from imagining that natural selection really can do what creative intelligence — foresight! — can do.
The Earth: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!
Even James Lovelock, who created Gaia Theory, now worries that environmentalism has become a religion.