Tag: economy
For Suicide, Disguised “Public Health” Policies Aren’t the Solution
The authors even suggest regulations controlling the manufacture of ceiling fans because some people have used the mechanisms to hang themselves.
Is the Panda’s Thumb Suboptimal?
The basic argument is that “[o]dd arrangements and funny solutions” point to evolution whereas “ideal design” points to a “sensible God.”
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?