Tag: David Chalmers
Sabine Hossenfelder, Taking on Consciousness, Tackles Panpsychism
She wants to apologize to all carrots who are watching her video — but carrots are not watching and that’s the point.
Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Pass the Van Gogh Test?
Vincent Van Gogh was crazy but he was talented, and AI can be neither crazy nor talented.
Is Consciousness a “Controlled Brain Hallucination”?
Anil Seth explains away consciousness away using fashionable terms like that. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I know from clinical experience that he is wrong.
Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?
Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies.
Berlinski Banters Entertainingly with ID-Friendly Muslims
Dr. Berlinski questions evolutionary understandings of language and expresses doubt as to what reproductive benefit could have accrued to “the first guy to master the Greek subjunctive.”