Tag: Enlightenment
Ben Shapiro and David Berlinski on the Reversion to the Primitive in Modern Life
Their conversation is so full of treasures, it’s hard to distill it down to an essence. But I’ll try.
Evolutionist Seethes as Duke Professor Analyzes Secular “Religion”
Staddon’s piece is topical, well written, and carefully reasoned. Coyne is of course free to disagree with Staddon’s conclusions.
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.”