Tag: John Searle
Jay Richards at COSM Talks Ray Kurzweil and Strong AI
Is the “singularity” coming, as Kurzweil argues there and elsewhere, when machines equal and then quickly surpass human intelligence?
Darwin Devolves: Another Huge Advance Against Darwinism and for Intelligent Design
This book is built on solid science. It’s going to be harder than ever for critics to spit it out just because they don’t like its taste.
Can the Rot of Naturalism Be Stopped? Relating Information to Matter and Energy Might Help
A New Yorker obit for naturalist atheist philosopher Jerry Fodor noted Fodor’s dismissal of the “natural selection” cult but, surprisingly, did not offer polite contempt.
Hype and Fearmongering About Artificial Intelligence Passes Its Sell-By Date
The attribution of superpowers to coming generations of AI machines has entered self-parody territory.
Post-Modern Science: The Illusion of Consciousness Sees Through Itself
“It’s quite plausible” is treated as equivalent to evidence, eliding the question of how exactly we come to “consciously believe” anything.
