Tag: human beings
Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?
Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
Some Biologists Take “Plant Minds” Seriously
What would surely puzzle other observers is the considerable current effort — at the same time — to portray human intelligence as some sort of illusion.
Mind, Matter, and Intelligent Design
Let’s extend our speculations about the nature of spirit and its interactive ability with this material universe to considerations on the origin of life.
From Jacques Monod, a Grim Message for Humanity
Biology was becoming a “real” science, melded with chemistry into the new discipline of biochemistry. At last life was reducible to molecular interactions.
The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo
A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization.