Tag: linguistics
Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus
It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language.
Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science
One might, with Darwin, theorize that the development of the biosphere was simply down to that empirically unattested variant of chance, “natural selection.”
Are Human Brain Transplants Even Possible?
I believe the intelligent design perspective may offer insight into the peculiar inability of central nervous system tissue to regenerate.
Biology’s “Best-Kept Secret” — Alfred Wallace’s Classic Is Out Now in a New Edition
On the subject of evolution, the scientific “consensus” depends on maintaining the our forgetfulness of Charles Darwin’s great partner, rival, and challenger.
Michael Aeschliman in National Review — Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism
From climate change to the coronavirus, one tendency among writers and commentators is to an urgent, insatiable, almost sexual desire to cast unwarranted terror over other people.