Tag: literature
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.
“Would Mathematics Be Here if We Weren’t?”
In December, physicist and author Lawrence Krauss interviewed the late American novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13th at the age of 89.
Why Mathematics and Literature Point to Intelligent Design
In an era where un-design is celebrated, a mathematician shows that structure and order are inherent in both literature and the universe.