Tag: human beings
Passing the Turing Test Is No Guarantee of True AI
A person who speaks no Chinese whatsoever inhabits a room full of file cabinets full of questions and answers — all written in Chinese.
The Miracle of Man: Reflections on the Westminster Conference
Dr. Miller gives a brief summary of his talk on the fine-tuning of human vision. We’ll be doing a full episode with him on that subject soon.
Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”
When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings.
A Paradigm Crisis for Physicalism
This crisis has converged with two other currents of change with the surprising result that alternatives to physicalism are now taken seriously.
Intelligence Is Unnatural, and Why That Matters
One of the advantages we have in our study of nature is our ability to observe an entire “unpolluted” universe.