Tag: humans
Some Problems Can Be Proved Unsolvable
A number of theories as to how life could have originated through entirely unintelligent processes have been proposed, but none are plausible.
Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences
If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge.
Artificial Intelligence Understands by Not Understanding
The ELIZA program, acting as a Rogerian therapist, simply mirrors back to the human what the human says.
Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos
They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey.
Meyer, Keating: Why Was the Object of Creation So Long in Coming? And Other Good Questions
I listened in the car on my way to and from a funeral. Obviously, the end of life, like its beginning, is an occasion for pondering ultimate questions.