Tag: literature
Life with Screens: A Novelist’s Prophetic Warning
David Foster Wallace foresaw the rise of the Internet and its pantheon of seductions.
C. S. Lewis on Natural Selection’s Power, or Lack of It
What were C. S. Lewis’s real views on evolution and intelligent design? Dr. John West explores the topic.
Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story
The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning.
Recalling Orwell’s Timely Warning on Groupthink
The censorship he had to address was not a conspiracy or even a campaign; it was spontaneous.
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.