Tag: economy
Science for Insight or Science for Power?
What are the core purposes of science and math? Evaluating the idea of “knowledge as power” in the computer age.
Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology
Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia.
John Lennox: What (Not) to Expect of Artificial Intelligence in 2084
A key question as we move toward this future, says Lennox, is what does it mean to be human?
A Note from the Canaries
Forced Darwinian orthodoxy was the first glimmer of a much larger project now gaining stride.
Robert J. Marks: Coronavirus and the “Primacy of Information”
This is the kind of insight that halts you in your tracks: “Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world.”