Tag: intelligence
If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?
We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds).
Applying the Design Filter to Hexagons
The hexagon on Saturn performs no function. Columnar basalt doesn’t say anything. Snowflakes don’t carry a message. They are mere emergent phenomena.
Conservation of Information — The Idea
Readers can determine for themselves who’s blowing smoke and who’s got the beef.
Detected: Intelligent Designs in the Amazon Jungle
With LIDAR technology, the angle of incidence of a signal can reveal designs hiding in plain sight.
The Non-Computable Human
An algorithm is a step-by-step set of instructions to accomplish a task. A recipe for German chocolate cake is an algorithm.