Tag: Enlightenment
Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment
A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete.
Weikart on C-SPAN: Jefferson, Russell, Hitler, Pianka, and More
Kudos to interviewer Peter Slen who is utterly unreadable as to his own attitudes on any on this.
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.”